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What Does the Refugee Crisis Mean For Jordanian National Identity?

With no end to the civil war in sight, the Syrian refugee crisis continues to reach staggering proportions. Amidst international concern over how to respond to this humanitarian emergency, Jordan has been applauded for its open...

by Miriam Puttick

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How Significant is the Threat of Violence in Securing Peaceful Outcomes?

Amazingly, it was US Secretary of State John Kerry’s ‘gaffe’ that offered a temporary respite from the chemical weapons situation in Syria. However, it can be argued that warmongering across the pond was exactly w...

by Victoria Briggs

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The failure of traditional ‘Laws of War’: Syria and beyond

Whether reading watching or listening to the news, it is likely that there will be a story about a war or conflict somewhere in the world. These reports only begin to scratch the surface of the vast number of conflicts occurrin...

by Joe Corry-Roake

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WATCH: The Crowd In The Machine

What shall we make of the flood of images and voices coursing through the Internet, and how shall we process it? In our minds, the details of so much material overlap and overwhelm. On the Internet, we say, our attention is get...

by Ivan Sigal

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WATCH: The Syrian Puppets of Freedom

Demonstrations calling for freedom at the heart of the palace of Bashar al-Assad (or Bisho, as a sarcastic nickname); puppets taking the forms of children, martyrs, shabbiha, and freedom fighters; a dictator screaming, “I am ...

by Syria Untold

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Syria: Banksy’s crude politics

Banksy’s video satirizing the Syrian civil war, entitled “Rebel Rocket Attack,” left Syrians and keen watchers of the conflict confused and disappointed. The video, released on October 6, has since been viewed by over fiv...

by Nour Al-Ali

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Syria: The Girls of Al-Tall Weave Ribbons and Freedom

The town of Al-Tall, in the countryside of Damascus, the Syrian capital, is famous for its highly educated inhabitants and its active women groups, despite the traditional nature of the community. In that context, we highlight ...

by Syria Untold

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All Quiet on the Syrian Front: But Who are the Winners and Losers?

The rhetoric has been scaled-back. Potentially embarrassing Congressional votes have been avoided. Multinational conflict has (for now) become an unlikely possibility. In fact, since the chemical arms agreement with Syria was s...

by Miro Ralston

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Syrian-Palestinian Refugees of Rap: “The Age of Silence is Over”

Refugees Of Rap is a Syrian – Palestinian hip-hop band, one of the first in Syria. The four rappers, from Syrian, Palestinian and Algerian origin, started singing in 2005 in the Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmouk, locate...

by Syria Untold

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What Does the Refugee Crisis Mean For Jordanian National Identity?

How Significant is the Threat of Violence in Securing Peaceful Outcomes?

The failure of traditional ‘Laws of War’: Syria and beyond

WATCH: The Crowd In The Machine

WATCH: The Syrian Puppets of Freedom

Syria: Banksy’s crude politics

Syria: The Girls of Al-Tall Weave Ribbons and Freedom

All Quiet on the Syrian Front: But Who are the Winners and Losers?

Syrian-Palestinian Refugees of Rap: “The Age of Silence is Over”

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