Archive for May, 2009

US-Syria relations: time to hit the reset button?

Leaving for Syria

The Reasons for ‘Syria’s Positive Caution’ Toward Obama Policy,” By Ibrahim Hamidi

“Raqqa and Beyond” by Ali Khan: Dispatch 23

Spiegel article Probably a Plant

“New Evidence Points to Hezbollah in Hariri Murder,” by Erich Fallath

Israeli poster pulled from the London subway after the Syrian Embassy complained

Syria’s New Tax Code

“Kilo Set Free,” by Khaled Oweis

Is Obama Turning into a Bust?

“Hassakeh,” By Ali Khan (Dispatch 22)

News Round UP (May 16, 2009)

“Who Killed Hariri? The Simplest Theory” By t_desco

Ire over US Sanctions Causes Policy Review in Damascus

SYRIAN BA’THIST MEMOIRS: Review by Nikolaos van Dam

Syria Eats Sanctions but Looks to Mitchell Visit for Understanding

Obama Sanctions Syria

Obama Should not Renew Executive Order Sanctions on Syria this Weekend

What is Feltman Doing in Damascus?

Syria and Washington, the Likely Path Ahead

Hamas and Hizbullah Reach out to Obama

Netanyahu goes for Palestinian over Syrian Track; Lebanon Elections

“Trip Around and Across Syria!,” By Ali Khan #21

“Dialogue is the Best Startegy,” Austrian F.M. Interview with Hamidi