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Women and the Rise of The Religious Conservatives By Anonymous For Syria Comment Sept 28, 2010 The following essay examines religious and cultural practices in Syria and the impact of religious conservatism on women. The essay is presented without authorship so as to not prejudice the reader by the author’s sex, religion, or nationality. The [...]
Netanyahu’s ability to stare down both the Palestinians and Obama made for another of those “there-goes-Palestine” moments. This is the third time that Obama has been steamrolled by Netanyahu. U.S. Scrambling to Save Talks on Middle East Jewish settlers in Kiryat Netafim poured a concrete cornerstone for a kindergarten on Sunday. By ETHAN BRONNER and [...]
Abdullah Dardari, Syria’s Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs, said while visiting France, that Syria expected to attract $55 Billion in Investment Over 5 Years. This number is more reasonable than the 77 billion that the Oxford Business Group said the Assad government expected to attract over five years in July. In February 2009, Dardari [...]
“SYRIA’S IMPROVED RELATIONS WITH TURKEY IS THE CENTER-PIECE TO BASHAR ASSAD’S NEW FOREIGN POLICY” JOSHUA LANDIS Center for Middle Eastern Strategic Studies, (ORSAM) Turkey Joshua M. Landis, Director of the Center for Middle East Studies and Associate Professor of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Oklahoma and writer of the a daily newsletter blog [...]
“Memorizing school books by heart is no more the way to excellence with the new curricula,” says the Assistant Education Minster, Ali al-Hasri. This could be a very important change for Syria, if it can be implemented. When I attended the University of Damascus in the 1980s, exams for the English and History classes were [...]
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