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I just received the following kind letter from Haytham Abed. This is the first time I have heard from him. He refers to this story: Syria's Private Universities, written in 2007. I salute him for his initiative and philanthropy. What a wonderful idea. Thank you, Mr. Abed.From: Haytham Abed haytham@bblconsultants.comSent: Sunday, June 29, 2008To: Landis, Joshua [...]
Late last year, Congress agreed to a request from President Bush to fund a major escalation of covert operations against Iran, according to current and former military, intelligence, and congressional sources…… Secretary of Defense Gates met with the Democratic caucus in the Senate. (Such meetings are held regularly.) [Illustration caption: Operations outside the knowledge and [...]
The tales in Evelyn Shakir’s Remember Me to Lebanon: Stories of Lebanese Women in America are set in various eras, from the 1960s to the present and occasionally hark back even to the turn of the twentieth century. Protagonists range in age from a teenager who resists her father’s understanding of honor, to an elderly [...]
[Landis Comment] Here is the latest Stratfor analysis (copied below). I am always amazed that they are read by so many. I presume their analysis on other things than Syria-Lebanon must be good? Their Syrian scoops are almost invariably wrong. Seemingly, they are linked into the Lebanese right wing propaganda chain or their Syrian opposition partners in [...]
US official hails Syria refugee aid25 June, 2008, AFP DAMASCUS: Senior US official James Foley yesterday held talks in Syria on the growing needs of some 1.5mn Iraqi refugees in the country and praised Damascus for its “generosity.” “We salute Syria, the government and its people for its generosity in welcoming” Iraqis who fled the [...]
(Analysis by Joshua Landis) Hizbullah will not return to the status quo ante. Ensuring that the Lebanese Army will not challenge it new position within Lebanon will remain Hizbullah's main demand in ongoing negotiations over a new government. The following story in the LA blog (copied blow) strikes me as sound analysis of the Lebanon [...]
Posted by Qifa Nabki Well, the results are in. Using several supercomputers and a sophisticated algorithm, two researchers, Bala Manyake and Amtihke Jad, with the Stockholm-based think tank SADDANA (Society for Advanced Data Analysis) have been able to determine the addiction level of different contributors to Syria Comment's discussion pages. If you've ever wondered just how serious your habit [...]
Asma Al-Assad in India Barak: Only US can help Israel-Syria talks; Syria: No chance of …Ha'aretz Israel and Syria are unlikely to hold direct peace negotiations before the end of the year, especially without the involvement of the United States, Defense Minister Ehud Barak was quoted as saying yesterday. US diplomat to visit Syria on [...]
Here is a wonderful book review of the "Language Atlas of Syria". The Reviewer, Dr. Nikolaos van Dam is Ambassador of the Netherlands in Indonesia and author of The Struggle for Power in Syria: Politics and Society under Asad and the Ba’th Party (London & New York: I.B. Tauris, 1996) (downloadable for free in Arabic). [...]
Book Review NIKOLAOS VAN DAM, The Struggle for Power in Syria: Politics and Society under Asad and the Bacth Party London: I. B. Tauris, 1996). Pp. 240. $24.50 paper. Downloadable for free in Arabic: http://www.democracy.org.nz/mideast/index.htm). REVIEWED BY JOSHUA LANDIS, Department of Near East Studies, Princeton University International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 30, No. 3 [...]
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