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Friday, 10 Jun, 2011
According to Syrian media, life is normal in city streets—only disturbed by a bunch of radicals trying to assault government personnel and terrorize the population. The Syrian media have also reported that the opposition conference in Antalya was a failure, mostly funded by foreign governments and designed to serve an anti-Syrian agenda. Finally, in what looks like a premeditated stunt, the Syrian Ambassador in Paris claimed that someone had impersonated her voice in announcing her resignati...
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Thursday, 9 Jun, 2011
Considering the so-called Facebook revolution in the Middle East this year, the UN decision last Friday to recognize internet access as a human right comes at a crucial juncture in the trajectory of globalization. Though the decision raises many questions and challenges, the internet does provide its users with an valuable tool for the realization of human rights.
The growing power of the internet has been officially recognized by the United Nations in its decision last Friday to decl...
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Thursday, 2 Jun, 2011
In a move uncharacteristic of Arab politics, the Syrian opposition groups which held a conference in Antalya, Turkey, this week, managed to smoothly resolve their differences, ...
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Wednesday, 1 Jun, 2011
WikiLeaks has slipped out of headline news. In the modern news cycle, attention spans are short. Stories that flood the news usually result in diminished audience interest. How...
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Wednesday, 25 May, 2011
"Twenty-eight hotels in Beirut and across the country refused to allow us to rent a hall to hold a private gathering in support of the Syria protests," Saleh Mashnouk, memb...
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Friday, 20 May, 2011
The timing of the speech was criticized even before it was made. For several weeks the world has been waiting for a comprehensive assessment from Obama on the tide of upris...
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Thursday, 19 May, 2011
Compared to Egypt and Libya, the world has remained behind the curve on Syria. While it took Egyptian protesters around three weeks to force their president Hosni Mubarak o...
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Tuesday, 17 May, 2011
One the one hand, if the Assad regime in Syria is the godfather of Hezbollah and Hamas, and it collapses, then the two groups will be substantially weakened by losing their...
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Thursday, 12 May, 2011
According to a recent report from the Congressional Research Service, the Security Council has failed to unanimously issue a press statement calling on Syria’s leaders to...
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Wednesday, 11 May, 2011
Hama is known in history books as the site of a brutal massacre that occurred 29 years ago in which thousands of residents were killed at the hands of President Hafez Al-As...
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