Archive for the 'Religion and Ethnicity' Category

Can the US and France agree on a Post-Doha Lebanon Policy?

Posted by Joshua on Sunday, June 15th, 2008

Bashar Will Always Have Paris: Obama has AIPAC

Posted by Joshua on Friday, June 13th, 2008

“It’s Time to Talk to Syria” by Kerry and Hagel

Posted by Joshua on Thursday, June 5th, 2008

News Round Up (2 June 2008)

Posted by Joshua on Monday, June 2nd, 2008

Why Reform is an Urgent call to Secular Arabs:

Posted by Alex on Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

Observations of a German journalist in Beirut

Posted by Alex on Sunday, May 18th, 2008

Syrian Media – The Challenge and the Need to Act

Posted by Alex on Thursday, May 15th, 2008

March Toward Disaster

Posted by Joshua on Thursday, May 8th, 2008

News Round Up (28 April 2008)

Posted by Joshua on Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

“The Jews of Syria,” By Robert Tuttle

Posted by Alex on Monday, April 7th, 2008

Jewish Fundraiser to Support Syrian Children with Cancer

Posted by Alex on Sunday, April 6th, 2008

The Peace Canal Plan – Peace plan/water import project from Turkey to the Middle East

Posted by Alex on Saturday, March 22nd, 2008

Can Israel and Syria Break the Middle East Deadlock?

Posted by Alex on Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

Britain’s Treachery, France’s revenge / Photos

Posted by Alex on Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

Israeli-Syrian Peace: From Dialogue… to Details & Diplomacy

Posted by Joshua on Thursday, January 31st, 2008

A letter from Alon Liel / Chairman of the Israeli-Syrian Peace Society

Posted by Alex on Monday, January 21st, 2008

“Al-Qaeda in Lebanon,” by Nir Rosen

Posted by Joshua on Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

“U.S. Wary of Warming Syrian-Turkish Ties,” by Deborah Amos on NPR

Posted by Joshua on Friday, January 11th, 2008

“Lebanon’s Exodus” by Rana Fil: Newsweek

Posted by Joshua on Wednesday, December 12th, 2007

News Round Up (3 Nov. 2007)

Posted by Joshua on Saturday, November 3rd, 2007

Muslim Brotherhood: “Christian or Woman can be President of Syria”

Posted by Joshua on Monday, October 29th, 2007

Analysts Say Israel Bombed Legal Nuclear Project Inside Syria

Posted by Joshua on Sunday, October 14th, 2007

Saudi king prays with Rif’at al-Asad in Mecca

Posted by Alex on Friday, October 12th, 2007

Nasrallah calls on Saudi Arabia to boycott the upcoming Middle East conference

Posted by Alex on Saturday, October 6th, 2007

Latakia in 1980-81: Samuel Pickering’s Fulbright Year

Posted by Joshua on Friday, October 5th, 2007

Qaqa – Fatah al-Islam Connection Pooh-poohed

Posted by Joshua on Monday, October 1st, 2007

Qaqaa Killed

Posted by Joshua on Friday, September 28th, 2007

More Commentary on the Metn Elections

Posted by Joshua on Tuesday, August 7th, 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

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

Posted by Joshua on Friday, June 22nd, 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

Palestine and Lebanon: The US in Quicksand

Posted by Joshua on Sunday, June 17th, 2007

The Kurdish National Assembly of Syria fights for Federal Democracy

Posted by Joshua on Friday, May 25th, 2007

“Lebanon Unrest Puts Hariri Tribunal In Peril” by Solomon

Posted by Joshua on Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007

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

Posted by Joshua on Sunday, May 20th, 2007

“Sufism and Salafism in Syria” by Itzchak Weismann

Posted by Joshua on Friday, May 11th, 2007

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

Posted by Joshua on Tuesday, May 8th, 2007

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

Posted by Joshua on Sunday, April 29th, 2007

Pelosi’s Trip to Damascus

Posted by Joshua on Saturday, March 31st, 2007

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

Posted by Joshua on Thursday, March 29th, 2007

A Response to Michael Young

Posted by Joshua on Tuesday, March 20th, 2007

Kurds Commemorate the “Intifadah” of 12 March 2004

Posted by Joshua on Wednesday, March 14th, 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

Saudis and Syrians …Brothers or Rivals?

Posted by Alex on Monday, March 5th, 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

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

Posted by Alex on Friday, February 23rd, 2007

Nasrallah: “No Plan for Sunni Conversions”

Posted by Joshua on Wednesday, January 31st, 2007

Syria and Iraq

Posted by Joshua on Monday, January 29th, 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

News Round Up (17 December 2006)

Posted by Joshua on Sunday, December 17th, 2006

“Six Brutal Truths about Iraq,” By Gen. Odom

Posted by Joshua on Wednesday, December 13th, 2006

“Shi’ites and Shi’ism in Medieval Syria,” by Stephennie Mulder

Posted by Joshua on Tuesday, December 12th, 2006

“SYRIA: Regime interests dictate regional policies,” by Oxford Analytica

Posted by Joshua on Monday, December 4th, 2006

Mansour al-Atrash has Died at 80

Posted by Joshua on Thursday, November 16th, 2006

Blanford’s Hariri Book. Syria Talks Urged by Britain

Posted by Joshua on Saturday, November 11th, 2006

News Round-Up Nov. 10 2006

Posted by Joshua on Saturday, November 11th, 2006

Syrian Corruption Hits Prime Time

Posted by Joshua on Monday, October 30th, 2006

Can Bush Bring Down Syrian Regime?

Posted by Joshua on Sunday, October 29th, 2006

News Roundup (Oct. 9, 2006)

Posted by Joshua on Monday, October 9th, 2006

Kurds Protest; Israel Says No to Peace

Posted by Joshua on Monday, October 2nd, 2006

Bayanouni Improves on Alawi Question

Posted by Joshua on Sunday, September 24th, 2006

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