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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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Why Assad Will Not Lose: The Unspoken Consensus On Syria

Commentary on the situation in Syria generally revolves around a handful of well worn subjects; the regime’s use of chemical weapons, how the West finds the regime abhorrent, the fact that Russia and China are supporting such...
by Michael Brown
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Cooking Under Siege In Homs, Syria

Homsi hamburgers, besieged sweets, tenacious pizza… This is how the people of Homs are referring to their meals these days, 24 months into a siege that has forced them to eat whatever they can find. From the grass that grows ...
by Nicky Armstrong
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When Chemical Weapons & Terrorist Groups Are Better Excuses

The last few weeks have been generous in events and catastrophes, from the Boston bombings to the Iraqi bloodshed, from the attack in Libya against the French embassy to the Somali terror wave and the Iranian devastating earthq...
by Mohamed Belarbi
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The Rise & Fall of a “Terrorist” Group: Jabhat al-Nusrah, Syria

Western media and thinkers, as crude as that categorisation seems, tend to oversimplify matters when dealing with “Jihadist” groups such as Al Qaeda. Like any “human institution”, however totalitarian it may seem, balan...
by Mohamed Firas Arfaoui
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UNESCO’s “Unite4Heritage” Campaign: Effective in the Middle East?

‘Syrian citizens were bent over, crumbled to the floor in rubble and crying for the loss they felt from seeing their buildings and monuments destroyed. These brave people had risked their own lives to try to save these ...
by Flo Carson
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National Security’s Cameo

Having been cast to the wayside in a way that it hadn’t been during the previous two presidential elections, eleven years after the September 11th terrorist attacks in 2001, the topics of National Security and Terrorism have ...
by Laura Casey
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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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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...
by Tarek Shehab
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