Articles tagged with: alawi
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Monday, 14 Jan, 2013
“So now, you do not know my name?” declared the late Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, in response to a question posed by one of the judges at his trial. A wry smile broke across Saddam’s face before he said, “If you do not know me, why did you bring me here?”
In a subsequent session, a veiled witness took the stand. Masking the witness’s identity protected the individual from retaliation, yet it also undermined justice since the witness’s identity could not be publicly confir...
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The string of high level defections from the Syrian government continued into this weekend, when the embattled regime’s Prime Minister, Riyad Farid Hijab, a Sunni, in a secretive late night operation, was spirited out of the country and into Jordan. While Hijab did not wield much influence within the Assad regime, his defection is nevertheless of symbolic significance. After all, as the Washington Post observes, the real power in Syria resides in the hands of a small clique of friends, family ...
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Thursday, 2 Aug, 2012
As the conflict in Syria intensifies, so does the speculation over the state of the country in the event of Bashar Al-Assad’s ouster. Will this multi-ethnic and diverse sectarian...
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Friday, 22 Jun, 2012
The British Foreign Secretary was right to compare the current situation in Syria to that of Bosnia and Herzegovina, where a catastrophic war raged from 1992 to 1995. The two scena...
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Thursday, 1 Mar, 2012
Asef Shawkat began his political career as a relative outsider in a government dominated by the Al-Assad family, neither a member of the Assads or one of their influential Makh...
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Saturday, 19 Nov, 2011
Less than a year ago, when the first tremulous shoots of the Arab Spring were pushing through North African clay, practically every political analyst and commentator agreed tha...
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Tuesday, 28 Jun, 2011
A bloody three-month-old stalemate is widening in Syria, where neither the opposition nor the regime has prevailed. Yet a sectarian conflict following along the lines of its ne...
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