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“A Night at the Theater with Saadallah Wannous” Dispatch from Damascus 19 (29/03/09) Ali Khan, “Syria Comment” (Photo by Ketan Gajria) A group of us from my class decided to go and see a play in the main theatre in Ummaviyeen Square. I went to buy tickets a few days in advance and was impressed [...]
SYRIA’S BOURSE – THE LAUNCH & RECOMMENDATIONS FOR ENHANCED MARKET LIQUIDITY BY Ehsani2 (who works for a global financial institution in the area of bonds and derivatives) For Syria Comment, March 26, 2009 Syria launched its stock exchange last week after years of delays in the latest step to liberalize the country’s largely state-controlled economy. [...]
Khalid Michal Interview By Paul McGEOUGH, exclusive 3hr meeting at his Damascus headquarters McGeough is the author the new book – Kill Khalid: The Failed Mossad Assassination of Khalid Mishal and the rise of Hamas [New Press. 477 pp. $26.95] Kill Khalid is the dramatic account of a botched Mossad assassination attempt in 1997 – [...]
Jordan’s King Abdullah and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad held talks in Amman on Friday, part of a flurry of diplomatic moves to close Arab ranks ahead of a summit later this month in Qatar, officials said. A palace statement said the talks between the two leaders focused on “efforts to crystallise a joint Arab stance [...]
A few bits of news before getting to the main attraction of Ali Khan. Al-Hayat is back! See the review of Rashid Khalidi’s new book, Sowing Crisis, by by Basil Hakki at the “Middle East Open Forum.” The previous post about Morocco is interesting and passionate. Correction:The “American” school does not have a date for [...]
Arms Probe ‘Torpedoing’ U.S. Overture, Syria Says (Update1) By Bill Varner March 20 (Bloomberg) — The Obama administration is hurting its bid to improve relations with Syria by pressing a United Nations probe into an arms shipment seized by Cyprus en route to the Syrian port of Latakia, a Syrian diplomat said. “It is torpedoing [...]
Eyal Zisser, in a recent Dayan Center policy piece, argues that Assad should be like Sadat and fly to Jerusalem if he wants Netanyahu to give him back the Golan. He decries the lack of imagination among Syrian statesmen. I like Zisser. He is the head of the Dayan Center, one of, if not the, [...]
Iranian Defector Reportedly Tipped Off U.S. on Syria Nuke Plant Fox News, Thursday, March 19, 2009 File: Satellite image shows suspected nuclear reactor site in Syria. GENEVA — A top-ranked Iranian defector told the United States that Iran was financing North Korean moves to make Syria into a nuclear weapons power, leading to the Israeli [...]
Interview with President Bashar al-Assad By Alix Van Buren La Repubblica, March 17, 2009 “America today is stronger militarily than at any other time, but politically they are much weaker. Obama will have to restore the American credibility in the Middle East. The first signs are encouraging: by disengaging from Iraq, closing Guantanamo, and by [...]
Saudi Arabia has been adrift since Obama won elections in the US. Having tailored its foreign policy over the last 8 years to President Bush’s, even if unhappily, Riyadh must tack with Washington’s new direction. The problem is that Washington’s direction is not yet clear. US diplomats say they are going to change fundamental policies [...]
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