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by Matthew Barber and the Syria Video team Mile-long line of Syrians fleeing into Turkey If you haven’t yet watched it, allow me to strongly encourage you to view the Frontline documentary Syria Behind the Lines. Superior even to this documentary, however, is a segment of extra footage from the journalist who filmed the [...]
Sami Moubayed has just come out with a wonderful book about US policy toward Syria. Forced to flee his beloved Damascus, Sami is now a Visiting Scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Beirut. Bravo Sami Syria and the USA: Washington’s Relations with Damascus from Wilson to Eisenhower ‘Syria and the USA is [...]
Homs: The Capital of Syrian Uprising By a Syrian expat originally from Homs for Syria Comment Posted by Camille Otrakji. This article is an attempt to provide a brief synopsis of the history and the socio-economic fabric of the city. This will help explain why Homs is the center of anti-government demonstrations and potentially the [...]
The Arab Spring & the decay of secular state in Syria By Morpheus, a Damascus based architect For Syria Comment – posted by Camille Since its beginning, the Arab Spring phenomenon dominated the waves of local & international media and focused discussions about the current state of affairs in the Arab world on two major [...]
Nikolaos van Dam Recommends Five Books on Syria to Browser The veteran Dutch diplomat and academic explains what is important about each of his top-five picks on Syria and why meaningful political change in Syria will be difficult to achieve. He warns that any move towards democracy is likely to be accompanied by severe sectarian [...]
I am a pessimist about Syria’s future because the regime will dig in its heels and fight to the end. The Syrian opposition has successfully established a culture of resistance that is widespread in Syria and will not be eliminated. Even if demonstrations can be shut down for the time being, the opposition will not [...]
Cables Obtained by WikiLeaks Shine Light Into Secret Diplomatic Channels President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, left, with William J. Burns, a State Department official, in Damascus. New York Times, November 28, 2010 By SCOTT SHANE and ANDREW W. LEHREN ….Cables describe the United States’ failing struggle to prevent Syria from supplying arms to Hezbollah in [...]
Searching for Crumbs in Syria’s Breadbasket An estimated 50,000 more families have migrated from rural areas this year due to drought. A woman prepared dinner in a tent on the outskirts of Al Raqqa. By ROBERT F. WORTH Published: October 13, 2010 Refugees have left their farmlands and are living in tents in Al Raqqa, [...]
Damascus art gallery ignites Syrian culture war Wed Oct 13, 2010 By Khaled Yacoub Oweis Arab master painter Youssef Abdelke shows one of his latest works at his atelier in Damascus September 23, 2010. A duel between Abdelke, who had spend two years as a political prisoner, and a banker-turned gallery owner, who helped introduce [...]
The Qubaysiyat are Feminists by Serene Taleb-Agha For Syria Comment October 4, 2010 Serene Taleb-Agha hiking near Swaida in spring when the poppies and dandelions are in bloom Last week you posted an interesting contribution entitled, “Women and the Rise of Religious Conservatism.” I disagree with the claim that religious women, and the Qubaysiyat in [...]
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