The Nation magazine has long ceased to be a leftist magazine. It has served for years now as a mere propaganda sheet for the Democratic Party. On...
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“We just want to be like Kuwait” is a sentence that one might often hear from people of the Gulf – specifically Saudis and Bahrainis. The sentence...
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Allinson has to deal with the facts on the ground: he has to admit that there are councils and outfits that speak on behalf of the Syrian people...
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Allinson’s basic weakness is that he is willing to subsume all developments in Syria, from the activities and murders by the Free Syrian Army and...
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Allinson admits that the situation in Syria is very “complicated” but thinks he can eliminate the complication by merely talking to “people within...
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This is the season. There is a myth of a “revolution” in Syria and the myth requires stories, tales, fabrications and distortions, especially when...
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Ramadan is supposed to be a month of charity. Instead, it has become a month of gluttony and ostentation. The rich compete to show off their fancy...
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Around this time last year, His Beatitude Patriarch al-Rai embarked on his tours of Lebanese regions, from Sidon and Jezzine to the Bekaa, and...
Sunday, August 12, 2012
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Perhaps the best way to document the Lebanese Civil War and its psychological effect on ordinary people is to delve into the the experiences of those...
Tuesday, July 10, 2012
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