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Preparing for the day after al-Assad’s fall Inside Syria – Aljazeera Presenter Ghida Fakhry: Joshua Landis; Yazan Abdallah, a Syrian academic and member of the Syria Dialogue – a group calling for transitional change in Syria; and Saleh Mubarak, a member of the Syrian National Council and a professor at Qatar University. See PBS Frontline [...]
Syria Video Syria Comment Announces a new web service: Syria Video, which can be found at http://syriavideo.net Syria Video is a web application that maps and aggregates Syrian war videos by tracking a large number of YouTube channels. The channels have been identified as reliable and tied to specific towns or regions of Syria. Syria Video [...]
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? [...]
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 [...]
Syria: Sectarian War or Class War Part 2 of short videos on Syria. I discuss the sectarian and class background to the Baath regime and what it means for today’s opposition movement. Part 1 is here.
A New Day in the Middle East? Mona Yacoubian, United States Institute of Peace Joshua Landis, Univ of Oklahoma, Syria Comment A New Day in the Middle East? Egypt: a crisis 60 years in the making (05:07) Who would fill a post-Mubarak vacuum? (04:13) Is Mideast democracy good or bad for the US? (04:00) Joshua: [...]
“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 [...]
Landis Interview with a Foreign Journalist 1. Professor Landis, tensions between the US and Syria have deteriorated. What are the main reasons of this deterioration? Syrian-US relations have been quite bad since 2000 when President Clinton’s efforts to broker an agreement between Israel and Syria collapsed. The reason for this failure are important because initially, [...]
Will failure to solve the Arab-Israeli conflict mean a new Cold War in the Middle East By Joshua Landis Tuesday, May 11, 2010 Is a new Cold War taking shape in the Middle East? It is not hard to understand why skeptics believe it may be. President Dmitry Medvedev visited Syria on Monday, the first [...]
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