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Managing Transition

Recent developments concerning Syria,including the United Nations Security Council Resolutions 1636 and 1644 have the potential of helping the Syrian opposition groups change the dismal situation facing their country leading to the inauguration of a new phase in the contemporary history of Syria, one full of promise and progress, one capable of enabling Syria to finally join the ranks of modernizing and democratizing states...    More

إدارة المرحلة الانتقالية
 

اتصف نظام الحكم في العقود الأربعة الماضية من تاريخ بلدنا بالطابع الاستبدادي والفساد المستشري وسوء الإدارة الفاضح من جانب الزمرة العسكرية الحاكمة وأزلامها من المدنيين. وقد شهدت السنوات الخمس الماضية على وجه الخصوص نزعة مغامراتية سياسية واقتصادية من قبل حكامنا الحاليين، ممن يدعون الحرس الجديد، أدت إلى تضييق أكبر لدائرة الممسكين بزمام السلطة ضمن النظام. وفي الواقع، لا يخفى على أحد الآن أن عملية صنع القرار باتت مقصورة على عصبة صغيرة فاسدة تتمركز حول شخص الرئيس وأفراد عائلته وأصدقائه المقرّبين...     More

 

Daily Star Articles
A new Iraq is forming in Syria, November 25, 2005
Bashar Assad's moment of truth is now, November 02, 2005
 

Syndicated Articles
Of Baath and Djinn, May 5, 2005
Syria: Another Regimefall Looming (PDF, pp36-37), ISIM, Autumn 2005


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

Interviews & Reviews
A selection of recent interviews and reviews dating May-November 2005.

Deutsche-Welle - On Blogging (Arabic), November 5, 2005
Foreign Exchange with Fareed Zakaria, November 4, 2005
Al-Arabiyyah: The complications of Kanaan's "Suicide" (transcript), October 16, 2005
Kulluna Shurakaa - a rare Arabic coverage, October 11, 2005
El Temps: La democratitzacio al mon arab no es pod fer a esquenes de l'islamisme, September, 2005
The Future of Liberalism in Syria (Arabic), June 28, 2005

 

Newsweek Arabic Edition names AA one of 45 influential personalities in the contemporary Arab World (JPEG),  April 25, 2005


 

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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