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On September 19th, Dr. Landis announced that he was relinquishing the day to day oversight of Syria Comment to finish his book. At the time, I had promised Dr. Landis that I will do my best to take over the task in partnership with Alex. Regrettably, the 22-day trial period ended today. I have decided [...]
SYRIA CRACKDOWN – Good debate on France 24 TV between Nadim KHOURY. Director of the Human Rights Watch Beirut office, Senior researcher on Syria and Lebanon (from Beirut); Joshua LANDIS. Director of the Center for Middle East Studies at the University of Oklahoma (from Norman, Oklahoma); Patrick SEALE. Journalist and author of “The struggle for [...]
Prizm TV: interviews Fred Reed Haithem al-Malah Joshua Landis The show is hosted by Salah Basalamah and produced by Maher Arar The guests begin talking around the 8 minute mark. That is a good place to begin. The order of speakers is: Prof. Fred Reed – 8:00 What is Syria? What is the Baath Party? [...]
Nokalaos van Dam has issued a new edition of his excellent book: The Struggle for Power in Syria: Politics and Society under Assad and the Baath Party. There is something to cheer about. I’ll give you an idea of what is new in the fourth edition, as compared with the third (published in 1996): The [...]
I am off for a week of vacation, Back to posting Thursday July 7. Best, Joshua
The Syrian Envoy’s View Published: May 11, 2011 in the New York Times Re “Syrian Elite to Fight Protests to ‘the End’ ” (news article, May 11): I wish to inform you that Rami Makhlouf, a businessman whom you interviewed at length, is a private citizen in Syria. He holds no official position in the [...]
Qifa Nabki has a long and probing interview with Camille Otrakiji (Alex) on his site. Talking about a Revolution: An Interview with Camille Otrakji
This hour On Point: Uprising and crackdown in Syria. On Point is an NPR radio chat show with host Tom Ashbrook Guests: * Anthony Shadid joins us from Beirut, Lebanon. He is a Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent for the New York Times. * Rami Khouri also joins us from Beirut. He is an internationally-syndicated columnist [...]
Protesters Want Changes To Syria’s Power Structure : NPR – Listen to 5 minute clip www.npr.org The Assad family, which has ruled Syria for the last 40 years, belongs to the Alawite religious sect, an offshoot of Shia Islam. It includes only 12 percent of the country’s population. Syria expert Joshua Landis talks to Steve [...]
Happy New Year to all Syria Comment readers, to those who comment, send in bits of news, and to the many who do not comment. Thanks also to those who write for SC and who send me their stories to post or link to. And thanks to the reporters whom I have come to know [...]
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