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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…