Arab Spring Short Comment on Syria Is not Iraq. 10 Feb 201317 Jul 2017 OBSERVER, one of my favorite commenters on SC posted a link to an article in the Atlantic blog titled Syria is Not Iraq by Shadi Hamid. Observer asked for feedback…
Arab Spring… Incoherence! 30 Jan 201317 Jul 2017 Coherence of thoughts is illusive. It lies behind the scenery of death, now so common as to fade into the background of long-threatened destruction that has become us. The hearts…
Arab Spring… Bashar Is bombing us. 11 Dec 201217 Jul 2017 I am not good at that. I mean, I don’t know how to collate news round-ups despite of all helpful modern blogging tools that make such task easier. May be…
Arab Spring… Lost Pleasure and Other Ramblings (by SYRIAN HAMSTER) 26 Jul 201226 Jul 2012 I was told in argument on SC that it is no longer pleasurable to read my posts. As if I care,… this is not a competition for the most pleasant…
Arab Spring… Of Interns and the Boy-king 18 Mar 201218 Mar 2012 I have not posted over the past four weeks. In the meantime, the Assad’s army entered Homs, and then Idlib. As FSA withdrew from both cities, massacres have taken place…
Arab Spring… Olives, Ironies, and civil war 11 Jan 201220 Jan 2012 On Jan, 5, 2011, Subhi Hadidi, a journalist termed by many in the opposition, including myself, as a moral compass for being fiercely independent in his criticism of the Syrian…
Arab Spring… Of Bombs and Fake web sites 25 Dec 201126 Dec 2011 I tend to agree with Maysaloon (the boy who cried wolf) , Robin Yassin Qassab (Now the Bombs) , and few others who were very rational in withholding judgement about who was…
Arab Spring… Keep your nationalism, Buzz-off mine, By SYRIAN HAMSTER 29 Nov 201120 Dec 2011 A Word from OFF THE WALL I have been having some exchanges with Syrian Hamster, we both have felt depressed over the past couple of days as we have been…
Arab Spring… The “Half-men” respond to the Boy-king 12 Nov 201119 Nov 2011 In 2006, and during the Israeli war on Lebanon, Bashar Al-Assad, claiming leadership of the Arab resistance camp, and using the popularity of Hizbullah's struggle against Israel to burnish his…