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A friend on Alawites: I remain skeptical regarding the Alawite community’s plan B. in my view there is no plan A, no plan B and no plan C. to make things worse there is no Alawite community. the original community’s communal structures, its forms of leadership, its elites, its identity, its religion and its rapport [...]
Women, the forgotten victims By Aida Dalati – December 28, 2012 Why haven’t you addressed the lack of Syrian women representatives in the future new Syria coalition ( not from the cliché Islamic point of view just intellectual because we women want to go forward after all we are full participants in this revolution) and [...]
Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, and Joshua Landis How Syria’s Alawites created their own worst enemy 7:06 Is there a way out for the Assad regime? 5:09 The anti-American perspective of a Syrian rebel 6:32 Why a no-fly zone ain’t happening 5:28 Joshua: Washington doesn’t care about Syria 5:28 When Assad might use chemical weapons 1:34 In Ravaged Syria, Beach Town May Be Loyalists’ Last [...]
Foreign Policy: Syrian rebels gain ground in Hama province Syrian rebels gained ground in the central Hama province on Thursday, taking control of parts of the strategic town of Morek, which lies along the route from Damascus to Aleppo. Victory over President Bashar al-Assad’s forces in Morek would allow the rebels to cut off government [...]
Is an Alawite State in Syria’s Future? December 20, 2012 By Cecily Hilleary @VOAHilleary It is an idea that was first introduced more than a year ago: If President Bashar al-Assad were to fall or be remove himself from power, would Alawites, for decades a ruling minority in Syria, retreat to their traditional western mountain [...]
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