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Ammar Abdulhamid
Category: Authors/Profiles
Ammar Abdulhamid, the founder and director of the Tharwa Foundation, is a Syrian author and human rights and democracy activist who is currently based in Washington DC. ...Tuesday, 03 August 2010 -
Forecast for Lebanon: Cloudy Days Ahead
Category: Content/In Focus
... of the two opposing groups in Lebanon are now as far away as they have always been, thanks to the uncoordinated messages sent by the two visitors. The Syrian president emphasized the need to discredit ...Monday, 02 August 2010 -
A New Kataeb
Category: Content/In Focus
... parties. Since the end of direct Syrian occupation of Lebanon, the party has undergone a number of major transformations From 1958-1990 the party was a ...Sunday, 01 August 2010 -
Arab Leaders in Baabda on Friday to Avoid 'Explosion'
Category: Content/Headlines
Baabda palace is gearing up to welcome Saudi King Abdullah and Syrian President Bashar Assad on Friday... Read Full Article ...Wednesday, 28 July 2010 -
Muallem: Lebanon Will Remain Syria's Neighbor
Category: Content/Headlines
Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem has told the Kuwaiti al-Dar daily that Lebanon will remain Syria's... Read Full Article ...Wednesday, 28 July 2010 -
Syrian Worker Injured, 7 Vehicles Damaged in Engineers Syndicate Parking Blast
Category: Content/Headlines
A Syrian worker was lightly injured and at least seven vehicles were damaged in a blast at a parking... Read Full Article ...Wednesday, 28 July 2010 -
Don’t Rule Out the Activists!
Category: Content/In Focus
... power struggles, have served to empower the region’s radical regimes and movements, most notably the Syrian regime, Hezbollah and Hamas. So far, this has served to heighten Israel’s threat ...Sunday, 20 June 2010 -
Reports: Suleiman-Assad Summit in Damascus Next Week
Category: Content/Headlines
President Michel Suleiman has reportedly agreed to hold a summit with Syrian President Bashar Assad... Read Full Article ...Friday, 04 June 2010 -
Suleiman, Assad Discuss in Phone Call Repercussions of Israeli Freedom Fleet Attack
Category: Content/Headlines
President Michel Suleiman and his Syrian counterpart, Bashar al-Assad, discussed in a phone call on... Read Full Article ...Friday, 04 June 2010 -
Aridi Discusses Transportation Deals with Syrian Counterpart
Category: Content/Headlines
Public Works and Transport Minister Ghazi Aridi discussed with his Syrian counterpart Yorob Suleiman... Read Full Article ...Friday, 04 June 2010 -
Political Shi'ism: from engaging the state to replacing it
Category: Content/In Focus
... aftermath of the Syrian intervention in Lebanon in 1977 and the assassination of Kamal Jumblatt which ushered in a new phase of civil conflict in Lebanon – one in which the LNM itself would disintegrate ...Tuesday, 04 May 2010 -
Breaking from the past, Syria's economy moves forward
Category: Content/In Focus
With international political relations now warming and a spate of top diplomatic emissaries having graced Damascus over the past 12 months, the Syrian economy is in the nascent stages of breaking out ...Sunday, 14 February 2010 -
The Good Old Days
Category: Content/In Focus
United States President Barack Obama's decision to name Robert Ford, as the new ambassador to Syria, to fill a post that has been vacant since 2005 has been warmly received by the Syrians. ...Sunday, 14 February 2010 -
The Levant gains from robust border regimes
Category: Content/Lebanon
... Syrian authorities and security institutions in order to demarcate the Lebanese-Syrian border, addressing the presence of armed Palestinian groups and Hezbollah training facilities close to the border ...Sunday, 29 November 2009 -
Hizballah in war and peace
Category: Content/In Focus
Four and a half years after Syrian troops were unexpectedly cajoled out of Lebanon, and more than three years after the end of a (nearly) "open" war with Israel, the Shi'ite movement Hizballah appears ...Sunday, 22 November 2009 -
Lebanese Federalism and Decentralization: Its Proponents and Discontents
Category: Content/In Focus
... there was less of a threat to the Christian community, thus federalism was not seen as a pressing concern. However, in 1982, Gemayel was killed weeks after his election, by a bomb placed by Syrian intelligence. ...Sunday, 25 October 2009 -
The Lebanese Political Party System
Category: Content/In Focus
... Mandate period, prior to World War II, the Cedar Republic enjoys a vibrant and competitive party system that has only become freer after the end of Israeli and Syrian occupation in the years 2000 and 2005 ...Sunday, 18 October 2009 -
The SIS Factor in Beirut
Category: Content/In Focus
... to Damascus for meetings with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. This was the first visit by Abdullah to Syria since he assumed the throne in the summer of 2005, six months after the assassination of his ...Sunday, 11 October 2009 -
Suleiman, Assad in 'Near Daily' Contact
Category: Content/Headlines
President Michel Suleiman awaits the outcome of talks between Syrian President Bashar Assad and Saudi... Read Full Article ...Tuesday, 06 October 2009 -
PSP Leader Looks Forward to Syrian-Saudi Summit
Category: Content/Headlines
Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat said "the upcoming Syrian-Saudi summit will hark... Read Full Article ...Tuesday, 06 October 2009
