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- One-in-five French people voted for this monster Marine Le Pen? This Nazi? This bigot? Seriously? 07:03:15 PM 22 April 2012 from Twitter for Mac Reply Retweet Favorite
- Dictators we like: "Bahrain is not Syria. There is a process of reform under way and this govt backs those reforms." http://t.co/qwnnrbHl 08:38:22 PM 21 April 2012 from Twitter for iPhone Reply Retweet Favorite
- No irony at all by @ed_husain."Iran meddling in Bahrain gives Saudi every right to worry about Iranian imperialism" http://t.co/BmX0puyD 08:07:37 PM 20 April 2012 from chrome-share Reply Retweet Favorite
- Syrian activists to rebels: Give us our revolution back http://t.co/fugmD9vW 07:59:55 PM 20 April 2012 from chrome-share Reply Retweet Favorite
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- “The Hamas-Syrian Split, a Dilemma for Iran’s Palestinian Strategy,” By Mohammad Ataie
  The Hamas-Syrian Split, a Dilemma for Iran’s Palestinian Strategy By Mohammad Ataie for Syria Comment May 13, 2012 Since the advent of the Iranian revolution, the Palestinian issue has been at the heart of the Islamic Republic’s foreign policy. For ideological and strategic reasons, supporting the Palestinian cause and resistance against Israel has been an [ […]
- Main Pillars of the Syrian Regime Collapsing
  The main pillars of the Syrian regime are collapsing one after the other. The closing of the University of Aleppo signifies the beginning of the end for public education. It will only be the first of the universities to close. Most are trying to limp to the end of the academic year, but they will […]
- Week’s Round Up (4 May 2012)
  Maps of the Syrian Conflict: Please acknowledge either syriamap.wordpress.com or, if you have space, as Brendan O’Hanrahan & Esther Kim, or Kim & O’Hanrahan.. The Week’s Round UP - Because the Annan Truce has been so badly observed by both sides – government and rebel- most observers have struggled to apportion blame. The Syrian government […]
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- Ramadan’s Arab Awakening
  A mangled version of this review appeared in the Independent. What is happening in the Middle East? Tariq Ramadan, one of the foremost Muslim intellectuals, calls the contemporary events ‘uprisings’, more concrete and permanent in their effect than ‘revolts’ but still short of thoroughgoing ‘revolutions’. So far, Tunisia is the only clear democratising succe […]
- Not Writing About Syria
  I haven’t been writing about Syria at my previous pace. The time is not right. This is a time for Syrian internet activists, those still surviving, to send us their videos. It’s a time for gathering evidence – although no more evidence is needed. It’s a time for reporters to write, for committed foreign journalists […]
- Sectarianism and Honesty
  This was published in the excellent Ceasefire magazine. Ba‘athism began as a conscious attempt to supercede the sectarian and regional divisions which plague the Arab world. That’s why many of its early ideologues were Christians or members of other minority groups. The Ba‘athist slogan umma arabiya wahida zat risala khalida – One Arab Nation Bearing […]
Qifa Nabki
- March in Support of Proportional Representation
  I got an email about a planned march in support of proportional representation (PR), which will take place in Beirut on May 13. In a way, conditions are ripe these days for Lebanese civil society groups to push their agenda for electoral reform because: (a) the issue is front and center again, and (b) because […]
- This Is Just To Say
  I have finished the dissertation that I’ve been writing and which has lately kept me from blogging more often Forgive me It was onerous So long And so dense […]
- Satire & the Syrian Revolution
  As it so happens, there are other things one can do with a camera phone during a revolution besides filming gun battles. I recently arrived late to a very good party, the party of Jiim Siin’s brilliant and wickedly satirical monologues about the Syrian uprising. Recorded on an iPhone by an anonymous Syrian fellow living […]
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