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Submitted by zozo2k3 on Tue, 2006-01-24 18:37.
Thoughts on politics, religion and culture from a Levantine stradling two worlds but feeling comfortable in neither...Nostalgically dreaming of his native town on the Syrian coast and what could have been.
| Birth of the Syrian American Congress | |
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The political turmoil in Syria over the past year has mobilized the Syrian expatriate community to form the Syrian American Congress in September 2005. |
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| Requiem to the Cedar Revolution | |
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 I remember vividly how thrilled I was at the sight of the massive demonstrations last March in Beirut. |
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| Syrian Opposition: Waiting for...What? | |
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| Fragments of Memory | |
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 Here are fragments of memories from my Syria formed in childhood. To me, these are important memories that decades of absence have failed to erase and make irrelevant. Despite living and adapting to other lands, Syria is the only place I feel a primordial connection to. This sense of belonging is perhaps subjective but paradoxically seems to grow with time -and age. |
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| Enough to Make a Grown Man Cry... | |
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 I recently saw the movie The Syrian Bride, an Israeli film with a largely Israeli-Arab cast and Arabic script. |
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| No Civil Society Without Safeguarding the Rights of Individuals | |
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We have been led to believe that since Bashar's accession to power, the Syrian intelligence services have become Mukhabarat lite. However, Joe Pace, in his recent Syria Comment post makes the point that this less brutal behavior applies only to known opposition figures who are in the public spotlight and whose case is championed by local and foreign human rights groups. This has led me to wonder about what is known about the number of political prisoners lingering in Syrian jails unrecognized and unaccounted for. |
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| SyriaPol: Gazing into the Crystal Ball | |
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 I participated in the SyriaPol devised by George Ajjan today. |
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| "Tel Pere, Tel Fils" | |
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Like father, like son: My post yesterday was mostly tongue-in-cheek but deep down, there was a glimmer of hope tha Bashar was different. |
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| Dear Mr. President | |
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| Of Cartoons and Looney Toons | |
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 Let me add my voice to the chorus of disgusted Syrian bloggers at the recent inexcusable behavior of our compatriots. I don't, for second, believe that the riots in Damascus were spontaneous. |
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| What Tolerance Begets.... | |
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| Syrians & Lebanese: Two Sides of the Same Coin | |
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 Having grown up Syrian in Lebanon, I have heard it all. |
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| Syrians on Edge | |
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Revealing comments on public sentiment inside Syria by Abdallah Ta'i (in Arabic) on Syria |
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| The Problem of Identity | |
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| Who am I to Blog? | |
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 I thought long and hard about creating this blog. |
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