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…
Bashar Al-Assad… Assad or We Scorch the Country (By OTW) 6 Apr 201217 Jul 2017 First, I would like to start this post by wishing all a serene Passover and Easter. May we all celebrate next year in a Syria liberated from tyrants. OK, so…
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…
Bashar Al-Assad… Conversations 18 Feb 201218 Feb 2012 I have been having hard time writing. The scale of massacre, the increasingly accelerating brutality of the regime, and the confusion and missteps on the side of "organized" opposition has…
Bashar Al-Assad… The “Arabized” and the boy-king 24 Jan 201224 Jan 2012 As expected, the Syrian regime has rejected the new Arab League decision, which was announced in a press conference led by the foreign minister of Qatar and the Secretary General…
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…
Bashar Al-Assad… Delusional Detachment .. Assad in his own words 19 Nov 201120 Dec 2011 In a recent article in the Canadian Globe and Mail, titled ‘Untouchable’ Assad ruled by duty to family, Patrick Martin, the Middle East correspondent takes a shot at trying to analyze the Syrian…
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…