Articles tagged with: Assad
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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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Tuesday, 31 Jul, 2012
Rarely has theatre responded so swiftly to pressing current events as with the production of the play The Fear of Breathing, playing at the Finborough Theatre in London until 11 August.
A work of great moral urgency, it is based on interviews conducted in Syria by Paul Wood of the BBC and Ruth Sherlock of the Daily Telegraph. The play gives voice and form to the testimonies of Syrians of diverse backgrounds as they struggle to survive despite civil war, mass killings, torture, arbitrary ar...
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Friday, 27 Jul, 2012
As the fighting in Syria continues this week, signs of increasing desperation amongst President Assad and his advisors are visible, but there are no signs that the regime will co...
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Friday, 20 Jul, 2012
Events in Damascus and the rest of Syria today have demonstrated the likely pattern of the continuing civil war. On the first day of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan government for...
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Thursday, 19 Jul, 2012
In 2009, while in Damascus reporting on the Iraqi refugee crisis, I stumbled upon an inspiring quest to restore Beit Farhi, the ancestral home of the Farhi clan, one of the most in...
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Thursday, 19 Jul, 2012
Details are still sketchy today following yesterday’s news that an explosion in Syria’s national security headquarters in Damascus had killed or injured several high-ranking of...
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Wednesday, 18 Jul, 2012
As the international community’s efforts to resolve the crisis in Syria have reached a deadlock with stark disagreements over the UN Security Council draft resolution current...
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Wednesday, 18 Jul, 2012
The reported assassination of both the Syrian Defense Minister, General Daoud Rajha, and President Assad’s brother-in-law, Assef Shawkat, is the most significant event of Syria...
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Tuesday, 17 Jul, 2012
Nawaf Fares, the Syrian ex-ambassador to Iraq who recently defected from the rule of President Bashar Al-Assad, has made a series of accusations against the Assad regime in an inte...
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Friday, 13 Jul, 2012
Syria’s civil war entered a new and deadly phase this week, with reports of the largest massacre in the country since the uprising began, the defection of a senior Syrian diplom...
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