Articles written by: Simona Sikimic
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Wednesday, 1 Aug, 2012
The global response to the Syrian conflict has been dominated by fraught discussions about intervention, sanctions, and arming opposition fighters, all under the umbrella of providing humanitarian assistance. However, as the scores of Syrian refugees fleeing the conflict are discovering, the prioritization of those who are the most vulnerable has once again been treated as an unpleasant afterthought.
With the nearly 17-month uprising descending upon Syria’s two main cities, Damascus and A...
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Wednesday, 30 May, 2012
The Franco-American argument about which country deserves to lecture the other on everything from liberty to multilateralism—has raged for centuries, but France just won the latest round. In France the May elections exposed the self-defeating folly of attacking Muslims to rally xenophobic sentiment—a lesson that has so far failed to resonate with the American political establishment. With Muslims growing in numbers and organizational strength on both sides of the Atlantic, Nicholas Sarko...
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Now firmly in its fifth month of anti-government protests and counting, Syria’s future hangs in the balance. Unlike Egypt, Tunisia, or even Libya, where international forces,...
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Wednesday, 20 Jul, 2011
Lebanon has been teetering on the edge for months as a deadly mix of political infighting and growing foreign interference have wreaked havoc on its stability and threatened to...
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