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Articles & Essays
 

2005

Tharwa Editorials
Flexibility allows for hope, rigidity precipitates mayhem, July 20, 2005
Will Arab regimes reform themselves...?, July 13, 2005
No Time to Waste, July 6, 2005
From Hama to Andijon - is Dialogue with Islamists an Impossibility?, May 30, 2005
Stop Splitting Hairs on "Terrorism", December 27, 2004


Daily Star Articles
A new Iraq is forming in Syria, November 25, 2005
Bashar Assad's moment of truth is now, November 02, 2005
For Syrian optimists, now is the time to reconsider, June 22, 2005
Some thoughts on a mundane Baath event, June 06, 2005
Mr. Assad, Take down our wall, May 31, 2005
Reform starts with a Syrian withdrawal, February 22, 2005
Syria's salvation is through reform, February 12, 2005
Syrian media reform: a glass half full or half empty, February 05, 2005
Why ignoring Syria is misguided, January 07, 2005


Syndicated Articles
Of Baath and Djinn, May 5, 2005
Syria: Another Regimefall Looming (PDF, pp36-37), ISIM, Autumn 2005
Syrian media reform: a glass half full or half empty, February 05, 2005
Superhighway to Damascus, Dec/Jan 2005
 

Symposia/Policy Briefings
The Brookings Institution: Syria after Mehlis (PDF), October 27, 2005
FrontPage Magazine - Syria's Glasnost, March 25, 2005
 

2004

Tharwa Editorials
Stop Splitting Hairs on "Terrorism", December 27, 2004
Darfur: Roots of conflict and the role of the Arab and international community August 9, 2004
Why Minorities? July 18, 2004
Where are we now? June 20, 2004
Stuck in the Bottleneck June 20, 2004
Are we all racist now? May 16, 2004
Syria and the Kurds - cool heads must prevail March 25, 2004
Out of the dark: Syria's Kurdish question reborn Friday, April 9, 2004
Why Tharwa? Why Now? March 10, 2004


Daily Star Articles

Stop Splitting Hairs on "Terrorism", December 27, 2004
The time for sacrificing is over, October 22, 2004
The US and the Arabs so similar yet so democratically different, October 15, 2004
The Syrian opposition's woeful irrelevance, September 17, 2004

Will the Syrian regime take on the world? September 3, 2004
Liberal Arabs: the last hope for reform August 31, 2004
The oxymoron of "illiberal democracy" August 14, 2004
Stuck in the Bottleneck June 20, 2004
Misreading the sanctions message Tuesday, may 18, 2004
Out of the dark: Syria's Kurdish question reborn Friday, April 9, 2004
Syria's year of living dangerously Saturday, March 27, 2004


Syndicated Articles

Syria: De-baathification from the top?, November 2004
Cradle of Contradictions April 20, 2004
Taking it seriously April 15, 2004


Recent Papers & Lectures
The Internal Dynamic of Syrian Politics (July 20, 2004)

 

2001-2003

Articles

* Is Syria Next (April, 2003)
* Democratization American Style (April 6, 2003)
* Syria’s Culture of Fear and Stalemate (May, 2002)
* Whereto? (April, 2002)
* A More Rational Approach to Peace and Normalization
  (March, 2002)
* On the Psychological Underpinnings of Terrorism
  (October 14, 2001)
* A Brief Note on the Roots of Modern Terrorsim
  (October 5, 2001)
* A Few Notes on Al-Jazeerah's Role (October 5, 2001)
 

Papers & Essays
* From Nationalism to Country-Building (May 10, 2003)
* Now What? The Aftermath of Conquest (May 10, 2003)
* Syrian-American Relations (May 10, 2003)

* A Unity of Expectations (November, 2002)
* The Improbable Yet Necessary Dialogue (August, 2002)
* Syria: A Culture of Fear and Stalemate (May, 2002)
 

Dialogues
* A dialogue with American anthropologist Eric Gans

 

Freedom


Have you really forgotten who I am, Brother? Have you really forgotten who I am, Brother?

 


I

lust

for

salvation,

 Brother,

as

though

it

were

a

woman,

and

I

 -

 a

man.

 
 

 
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