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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...
Regional Reactions To The Iran Nuclear Deal
As Iran’s long standing sworn “nemesis”, the Israeli reaction, voiced through Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, denouncing the P5+1 Iran nuclear deal, claiming that the “agreement has made the world more dangerous...
“In Damascus All is Quiet”: Russians Report from Syria
In Russia, support for Bashar al-Assad’s regime cuts across political lines. Deep suspicions of Western motives for military intervention, combined with a domestic history of Islamist rebel groups, lead even the staunches...
Lebanese Presidential Elections And Non-Lebanese Selections
As election season heats up in the Lebanese capital, the man to fill Lebanon’s Presidential throne is still very much up in the air. No time like the present, less than fifty days from the May 25 deadline, illustrates just ho...
A changed world: 2012 foreign policy predictions and outcomes
A Changed World A look back at three major foreign policy claims of the 2012 US Presidential Election and forward to the road ahead, providing letter grades A to F for the candidates predictions. Issue #1: Iran Then: The electi...
The Procedures of Killing People Legally
Where was the world when the first 100,000 Syrians were killed? Where was the efforts for intervention when the first 2 million civilians, men, women, children and elderly fled from a conflict that didn’t care for collateral ...
The Farcical Elections In Syria: Political Theater Amidst Chaos
For the past 3 years, Syria has been immersed in a bloody and complex civil war that has claimed the lives of over 150,000 people. Millions more have been displaced, and it is unlikely that they will be returning home anytime s...
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...