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Birth of the Syrian American Congress

Sun, 9 Apr 2006 07:00:18 +0300

The political turmoil in Syria over the past year has mobilized the Syrian expatriate community to form the Syrian American Congress in September 2005.

Requiem to the Cedar Revolution

Tue, 4 Apr 2006 01:10:17 +0300

I remember vividly how thrilled I was at the sight of the massive demonstrations last March in Beirut.

Syrian Opposition: Waiting for...What?

Sun, 26 Mar 2006 06:37:16 +0200

Call me impatient or call me a skeptic but its seems to me that all the internal and external Syrian opposition meetings and declarations are generating a lot of heat and very little light.

Fragments of Memory

Sun, 19 Mar 2006 05:15:15 +0200

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.

Enough to Make a Grown Man Cry...

Sun, 5 Mar 2006 00:20:14 +0200

I recently saw the movie The Syrian Bride, an Israeli film with a largely Israeli-Arab cast and Arabic script.

No Civil Society Without Safeguarding the Rights of Individuals

Sat, 4 Mar 2006 06:15:13 +0200

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.

SyriaPol: Gazing into the Crystal Ball

Tue, 21 Feb 2006 03:54:05 +0200

I participated in the SyriaPol devised by George Ajjan today.

"Tel Pere, Tel Fils"

Thu, 16 Feb 2006 01:33:48 +0200

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.

Dear Mr. President

Tue, 14 Feb 2006 05:45:42 +0200

I am writing in the hope that, as an online letter, it will reach you directly without the filter of the yes-men and self-serving sycophants that surround you and taint your view of the world.

Of Cartoons and Looney Toons

Tue, 7 Feb 2006 04:50:02 +0200

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.

What Tolerance Begets....

Sun, 29 Jan 2006 19:54:15 +0200

Levantine Dreamhouse

Tue, 24 Jan 2006 20:37:39 +0200

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.

Syrians & Lebanese: Two Sides of the Same Coin

Tue, 24 Jan 2006 03:51:03 +0200

Having grown up Syrian in Lebanon, I have heard it all.

Syrians on Edge

Wed, 18 Jan 2006 03:10:01 +0200

Revealing comments on public sentiment inside Syria by Abdallah Ta'i (in Arabic) on Syria

The Problem of Identity

Sat, 14 Jan 2006 16:27:06 +0200

Identity or rather the multiplicity of identities, in my view, remains a fundamental problem in the Middle East.