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Syrian women, backbone of the revolution
For the last ten months of the Syrian revolution, many skeptics have repeated the tired refrain that women have been absent from the uprising and that it seems to be a male- dominated (read "Islamist-leaning") protest movement.
The Syrian will to live
When Tahrir Square resonated with the roar of Egyptians chanting for the fall of the regime, many Syrians watched with admiration and solidarity …
From conspiracy to vox populi
For years, it seemed that nothing could happen in the Levant without the involvement of Syria, according to its regular critics--a claim that simultaneously annoyed and pleased the Syrian regime.
Young Turks and the Syrian spring
All was relatively well with Turkey's foreign relations. Until 15 school children fooled around by scrawling anti-regime graffiti on a wall, got jailed and tortured in Daraa, far away from the Syrian-Turkish border. Then all hell broke loose.
A twist in Syria's sobriety
Even with the benefit of recent regional experience, the Syrian regime has been quite stunned by the protests shaking the country--but not nearly half as stunned as the Syrian people themselves.
Reverse engagement
The US is not even pushing for actual Israeli-Palestinian talks, but has taken the unprecedented step of going publicly backward, rather than forward, in a process it sponsored 20 years ago under the equation of land for peace.
The dilemma of Arab nationalists
Is the enemy of our enemy necessarily our friend, regardless of other factors? Have we become so desperate for support for the Palestinian cause that we would become bedfellows with the least savory of characters?
Syria and Turkey: A burgeoning courtship
Arab nationalism and Alexandretta notwithstanding, a Turkish-Syrian affair is currently in full bloom, joining the proverbial hearts and minds across the border, letting bygones be bygones and picking up from where things were last left.
From ‘land for peace’ to ‘an eye for an eye’
No sooner had Israel begun its most vicious onslaught yet before commentaries began to explain the massacre and put things into context.
Education and the pursuit of justice
The region stands at the edge of an existential precipice. It has a huge young population running out of options for education, employment or economic security …
Success measured by attendance
Despite their proven futility, Arab League summits have always managed to create a modicum of expectation over the last couple of decades, with several big events shaking the Arab world to its core.
America’s veto on Syrian-Israeli talks is counter-productive
Syria is being accused of wanting to negotiate for negotiations' sake, but Israel and the US themselves are only talking peace to achieve other goals.
The pariah who came in from the cold
As long as politicians' positions are stated purely in relation to Syria (as "pro-Syrian" or "anti-Syrian"), the Lebanese themselves are inflating Syria's influence instead of shaking it off.
Damascus should beware delusions of grandeur
The Syrian regime currently seems intoxicated with power and confidence, reveling in its recovered status as an incontrovertible accomplice to any regional arrangement.
As Lebanon burns, Syria finds supporters again
In Syria, the peculiar sight of a brand-new trinity consisting of Nasrallah and Sadr flanking Bashar Assad is being paraded.
Real fears or crocodile tears?
It is only a matter of time before Iran becomes the only real influence over what promises to be a large area of joint hegemony; Damascus only needs to wait for the fruits of its rapport with Tehran to flourish …
Syria must choose pragmatism over isolation
Relations have entered another dimension which actually defines Syria's standing on the international scale, where Syria's cooperation--or lack thereof--on all things Lebanese will now delineate its position with the big powers.
Syrian-Lebanese relations are not a zero-sum game
The more Syria feels pressured, the more it chokes Lebanon; the more it fuels resentment in a new Lebanese generation, the more it hurts itself in the process.
Recycled delusions in Geneva
From the first "land for peace" equation of Madrid's peace conference, to the "peace for land" deal that Sharon pretends to offer (supposedly after resistance stops), a "land for land" barter now surfaces.