Archive for 2007

“In the Old City, a Bohemian Rhapsody,” by Oliver August

Posted by Joshua on Sunday, July 15th, 2007

Saudi Jihadists in Iraq far Outnumber Others

Posted by Joshua on Sunday, July 15th, 2007

Syria’s Private Universities

Posted by Joshua on Saturday, July 14th, 2007

Syrian Clothes Designer Enthralls Turks

Posted by Joshua on Saturday, July 14th, 2007

U.N. probe has identified people who may have been involved in Hariri assassination

Posted by Joshua on Friday, July 13th, 2007

“Syria’s Quest for a Political Deal” by Rime Allaf

Posted by Joshua on Thursday, July 12th, 2007

Is Amal Saad-Ghorayeb disseminating Misinformation?

Posted by Joshua on Thursday, July 12th, 2007

Will Syria and Israel talk, fight or wait?

Posted by Alex on Tuesday, July 10th, 2007

News Round Up (July 5, 2007)

Posted by Joshua on Friday, July 6th, 2007

Taysir Raddawi of Planning Commission: Interview with Jihad Yaziji

Posted by Joshua on Monday, July 2nd, 2007

Syrian Trade – Thanks to Syria Report

Posted by Joshua on Monday, July 2nd, 2007

News Round Up (2 July 2007)

Posted by Joshua on Monday, July 2nd, 2007

Gambill on US Policy in Lebanon and Fatah al-Islam

Posted by Joshua on Sunday, July 1st, 2007

Syria is Not Against the UN

Posted by Joshua on Thursday, June 28th, 2007

“UNIFIL and Eido Car Bombs the Same: Murr Blames al-Qaida” by T_desco

Posted by Joshua on Wednesday, June 27th, 2007

“Syria Not Behind Killing of Spaniards” Responds Second Syria Analyst

Posted by Joshua on Tuesday, June 26th, 2007

What Are the Italians Doing in Damascus?

Posted by Joshua on Tuesday, June 26th, 2007

What Will Syria Do in Lebanon? (15 June 2007)

Posted by Joshua on Monday, June 25th, 2007

The Damascus Center for the study of Human Rights

Posted by Joshua on Sunday, June 24th, 2007

“Iran’s and Syria’s plan: an interpretation,” by Michael Young

Posted by Joshua on Friday, June 22nd, 2007

Patraeus – Syria Door to Foreign Fighters; Murr – No Evidence yet of Syria Support for Fatah Islam

Posted by Joshua on Friday, June 22nd, 2007

IMF Report: “The Syrian economy did remarkably well in 2006”

Posted by Joshua on Wednesday, June 20th, 2007

“Bush Weighs Reaching Out To Muslim Brothers,” byu Eli Lake

Posted by Joshua on Wednesday, June 20th, 2007

Bush and Olmert Downplay Syria Talks

Posted by Joshua on Wednesday, June 20th, 2007

Al-Qaida Arrests in Lebanon

Posted by Joshua on Tuesday, June 19th, 2007

“Alawi Identity in Syria,” M.A. Thesis by Torstein Worren

Posted by Joshua on Tuesday, June 19th, 2007

News Round Up (19 June 2007)

Posted by Joshua on Tuesday, June 19th, 2007

“Letter to Our President” by Anonymous

Posted by Joshua on Tuesday, June 19th, 2007

Palestine and Lebanon: The US in Quicksand

Posted by Joshua on Sunday, June 17th, 2007

“A Critique of ‘Promoting Fatahland, while punishing Hamastan,'” by Daniel Levy

Posted by Joshua on Saturday, June 16th, 2007

“A summer of war or peace?” By Patrick Seale

Posted by Joshua on Saturday, June 16th, 2007

UN’s Mid East Envoy Slams Isolation of Syria and UN Kowtowing to US.

Posted by Joshua on Thursday, June 14th, 2007

News Round Up (13 June 2007)

Posted by Joshua on Wednesday, June 13th, 2007

The Presidential Plebiscite and Pageantry: What does it Mean?

Posted by Joshua on Monday, June 4th, 2007

Introducing the Creative Forum: Commemorating the Golan Heights

Posted by Alex on Monday, June 4th, 2007

Arriving in Damascus 2007 – First Impressions

Posted by Joshua on Friday, June 1st, 2007

Initial syriapol Results Released

Posted by Alex on Thursday, May 31st, 2007

News Round Up (28 May 2007)

Posted by Joshua on Tuesday, May 29th, 2007

News Round Up (12 May 2007)

Posted by Joshua on Friday, May 25th, 2007

The Kurdish National Assembly of Syria fights for Federal Democracy

Posted by Joshua on Friday, May 25th, 2007

“US Asks NSF to Elect New Leader for Credibility,” by Bette Dam

Posted by Joshua on Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007

“Lebanon Unrest Puts Hariri Tribunal In Peril” by Solomon

Posted by Joshua on Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007

U.S. policy turnabout may enable Israeli-Syrian talks

Posted by Alex on Monday, May 21st, 2007

“Lebanese Troops Fight Islamists,” by Hassan Fattah

Posted by Joshua on Monday, May 21st, 2007

“Ash’ari Islam Predominates in Syria,” by Anonymous

Posted by Joshua on Sunday, May 20th, 2007

Iraqi Refugees in Syria: 3 Best Articles

Posted by Joshua on Sunday, May 20th, 2007

News Round Up (19 May 2007)

Posted by Joshua on Sunday, May 20th, 2007

“A Review Of Mr. Assad’s First Term in office” by Ehsani

Posted by Joshua on Friday, May 18th, 2007

Draft U.N. Security Council Resolution Ready for Tribunal

Posted by Joshua on Friday, May 18th, 2007

News Round-Up

Posted by Alex on Tuesday, May 15th, 2007

Bernard Gwertzman (CFR consulting editor) interviews Joshua Landis

Posted by Alex on Monday, May 14th, 2007

Hariri Tribunal set for May 22?

Posted by Joshua on Sunday, May 13th, 2007

“Sufism and Salafism in Syria” by Itzchak Weismann

Posted by Joshua on Friday, May 11th, 2007

Eliott Abrams Says Rice’s Push For Mideast Peace Is ‘Just Process’

Posted by Joshua on Thursday, May 10th, 2007

Assad Rules out Cooperation with Hariri Tribunal if Sovereignty Threatened

Posted by Joshua on Thursday, May 10th, 2007

Kamal Labwani Sentenced to 12 Years in Prison

Posted by Joshua on Thursday, May 10th, 2007

“The Difference Between Wahhabis and Muslim Brothers,” by David Commins

Posted by Joshua on Tuesday, May 8th, 2007

News Roundup (8 May 2007) Rice Says Yes to Chapter VII Tribunal

Posted by Joshua on Tuesday, May 8th, 2007

“Battling the Lion of Damascus: Syria’s Opposition” by Seth Wikas

Posted by Joshua on Tuesday, May 8th, 2007

Lebanese Certain Chapter VII Tribunal Will Pass UN Vote End of May

Posted by Joshua on Sunday, May 6th, 2007

Rice and Moualem Meet: Has Syria Won?

Posted by Joshua on Saturday, May 5th, 2007

Will There be a War this Summer?

Posted by Joshua on Friday, May 4th, 2007

Tribunal Tribulations – Is the Hariri Court Dead?

Posted by Joshua on Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007

“The Middle East is abuzz with talk of ‘Shiitization,'” by Andrew Tabler

Posted by Joshua on Sunday, April 29th, 2007

News Round Up (26 April 2007)

Posted by Joshua on Thursday, April 26th, 2007

News Roundup (25 April 2007)

Posted by Joshua on Thursday, April 26th, 2007

Anwar al-Bunni Sentenced to 5 years in Prison

Posted by Joshua on Tuesday, April 24th, 2007

US Imposes Sanctions on Syrian Navy and Air Force

Posted by Joshua on Tuesday, April 24th, 2007

“The Election Results” by Hamidi

Posted by Joshua on Tuesday, April 24th, 2007

Imad Moustapha on US-Syrian Relations

Posted by Joshua on Monday, April 23rd, 2007

The Party is Over. Long Live the Party

Posted by Joshua on Monday, April 23rd, 2007

Syrians at the Polls: To Vote – Yes or No

Posted by Joshua on Sunday, April 22nd, 2007

The National Salvation Front Opens Office in Washington

Posted by Joshua on Saturday, April 21st, 2007

Syrian Opposition harmed by Iraq: MB Opens office in DC

Posted by Joshua on Saturday, April 21st, 2007

Will the Hariri Tribunal get UN approval?

Posted by Joshua on Friday, April 20th, 2007

“Hizballah and Syria: Outgrowing the Proxy Relationship,” by Emile El-Hokayem

Posted by Joshua on Thursday, April 19th, 2007

“My Experience in the People’s Assembly,” by Riyadh Sayf

Posted by Joshua on Wednesday, April 18th, 2007

“Negotiations with Syria Not in Israel’s Interest,” by Giora Eiland

Posted by Joshua on Tuesday, April 17th, 2007

“U.S. Policy Toward Syria Debate:” Landis, Badran, Jouejati

Posted by Joshua on Tuesday, April 17th, 2007

“Why Don’t Arab Dictators Declare Themselves Kings?” by Ehsani

Posted by Joshua on Monday, April 16th, 2007

The Truth about Syria: Will the UN vote for a Tribunal?

Posted by Joshua on Thursday, April 12th, 2007

The Smartest Observations on Pelosi and Syria – Malley and Lobe

Posted by Joshua on Wednesday, April 11th, 2007

“US backing ‘covert war’ against Hizbullah” CSM

Posted by Joshua on Wednesday, April 11th, 2007

“Restarting Israeli-Syrian Negotiations,” by ICG

Posted by Joshua on Tuesday, April 10th, 2007

“Lebanon’s Coming Crisis” by Firas Maksad

Posted by Joshua on Thursday, April 5th, 2007

Young & Landis Debate Pelosi Visit on Public Radio

Posted by Joshua on Wednesday, April 4th, 2007

The Pelosi Visit

Posted by Joshua on Wednesday, April 4th, 2007

“What do we know about the Syrian Economy?” by Ehsani

Posted by Joshua on Wednesday, April 4th, 2007

Seymour Hersh: “We may never find out who ordered Hariri assassination”

Posted by Joshua on Monday, April 2nd, 2007

Pelosi’s Trip to Damascus

Posted by Joshua on Saturday, March 31st, 2007

Saudi Arabia’s New Peace Proposal?

Posted by Joshua on Friday, March 30th, 2007

The Arab League Summit: Arabism is Back – Syria is In

Posted by Joshua on Thursday, March 29th, 2007

“Farid Ghadry, Syria’s Chalabi: From Washington to Damascus,” by Salim Abraham

Posted by Joshua on Sunday, March 25th, 2007

France Urged Israel to Bomb Syria

Posted by Joshua on Thursday, March 22nd, 2007

A Response to Michael Young

Posted by Joshua on Tuesday, March 20th, 2007

Brammertz V – Comments and Contextualization (by t_desco)

Posted by Joshua on Monday, March 19th, 2007

Hizbullah’s MP Nawar Sahili Interviewed by Hugh Macleod

Posted by Joshua on Sunday, March 18th, 2007

‘Syria’s Revenues in Danger,’ Finance Minister Warns – Discussion by Ehsani2

Posted by Joshua on Saturday, March 17th, 2007

Kurds Commemorate the “Intifadah” of 12 March 2004

Posted by Joshua on Wednesday, March 14th, 2007

“U.S.-Syrian Relations” by Amassador Moustapha

Posted by Joshua on Monday, March 12th, 2007

Readers Responses to my Last Post

Posted by Joshua on Monday, March 12th, 2007

Counting Lebanon’s Shiites as Slaves: Why the Lebanon Deal is Obstructed

Posted by Joshua on Saturday, March 10th, 2007

“Iranian General Defects with Hizbullah’s Secrets,” by Nicholas Noe

Posted by Joshua on Wednesday, March 7th, 2007

Has a Lebanon Deal Been Clinched?

Posted by Joshua on Tuesday, March 6th, 2007

Saudis and Syrians …Brothers or Rivals?

Posted by Alex on Monday, March 5th, 2007

News Round Up (3 March 2007)

Posted by Joshua on Saturday, March 3rd, 2007

News Round Up (27 February 2007)

Posted by Joshua on Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

“Lebanese Sunnis Deeply Divided over Relations with Hizbullah” by Anonymous

Posted by Joshua on Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

Bilal Saab on Jihadis in Lebanon

Posted by Joshua on Monday, February 26th, 2007

Seymour Hersh, “The Administration’s New Policy on Terrorism”

Posted by Joshua on Monday, February 26th, 2007

Syrian Opposition – New Articles

Posted by Joshua on Saturday, February 24th, 2007

Syria, Iran and Saudi Arabia: Three’s a Crowd

Posted by Alex on Friday, February 23rd, 2007

Will Saudi Arabia Solve America’s Problems?

Posted by Joshua on Monday, February 19th, 2007

Feb 14 Raises the Rhetoric

Posted by Joshua on Thursday, February 15th, 2007

News Round Up (13 February 2007)

Posted by Joshua on Tuesday, February 13th, 2007

Powell Says, “We got plenty” from Syria in Talks

Posted by Joshua on Monday, February 12th, 2007

The US and Syria: Is Dialogue Coming?

Posted by Joshua on Saturday, February 10th, 2007

Is Syria Supplying Weapons to Iraqi Militias?

Posted by Joshua on Saturday, February 10th, 2007

New Zogby poll: 80 % of moderate Arabs say Israel and the U.S. are their two biggest external threats. 6% cited Iran

Posted by Alex on Friday, February 9th, 2007

Syria’s President Says He Needs Iran’s Support

Posted by Alex on Tuesday, February 6th, 2007

CIA and Syrian Intelligence in Lebanon

Posted by Joshua on Monday, February 5th, 2007

ABC News’ Diane Sawyer Talks to President Bashar al-Assad About Iraq and Mideast Peace

Posted by Alex on Monday, February 5th, 2007

Syria Shuts Out Iraqi Refugees. Is Arabism Over?

Posted by Joshua on Sunday, February 4th, 2007

Nasrallah: “No Plan for Sunni Conversions”

Posted by Joshua on Wednesday, January 31st, 2007

Liel – “Syrians Serious about Full Reorientation”

Posted by Joshua on Wednesday, January 31st, 2007

Syria and Iraq

Posted by Joshua on Monday, January 29th, 2007

Centre for Syrian Studies Call for Papers on Reform

Posted by Joshua on Thursday, January 18th, 2007

Reactions to Revelations of Israeli-Syrian Unofficial Peace Negotiations

Posted by Joshua on Wednesday, January 17th, 2007

“Secret understandings reached between representatives of Israel, Syria” by Akiva Eldar

Posted by Joshua on Tuesday, January 16th, 2007

“The Pieces are in Place for Escalation,” by Sam Gardiner

Posted by Joshua on Monday, January 15th, 2007

What is New about Bush’s New Strategy?

Posted by Joshua on Sunday, January 14th, 2007

Madrid Peace Conference Upstaged by Bush’s Call for More War

Posted by Joshua on Friday, January 12th, 2007

Russia Strikes Back

Posted by Joshua on Friday, January 12th, 2007

CIA Gets the Go-Ahead to Fight Hizbullah

Posted by Joshua on Wednesday, January 10th, 2007

“Elliot Abrams’ Uncivil War,” by Conflicts Forum

Posted by Joshua on Monday, January 8th, 2007

News Round Up (6 January 2007)

Posted by Joshua on Saturday, January 6th, 2007

Andrew Exum and Nicholas Noe Debate Hizbullah’s Summer War

Posted by Joshua on Saturday, January 6th, 2007

Amendment to Syrian Election Law

Posted by Joshua on Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007

Syrians to Participate in Madrid Conference Jan. 10-12

Posted by Joshua on Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007

US Arms Surrogates

Posted by Joshua on Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007

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