Author: Sarah Akel

The following video was taken during today’s (May 20) demonstrations in the city of Hamah, in North Syria. Protestors expressed…

PolicyWatch #1809 The Obama administration’s announcement yesterday specifically sanctioning Syrian President Bashar al-Asad begins to clear the fog that has…

08 May 2011, Sunday / YONCA POYRAZ DOĞAN , İSTANBUL A writer who has questioned how being “the other” is…

US Department of The Treasury Administration Takes Additional Steps to Hold the Government of Syria Accountable for Violent Repression Against…

Posted By Josh Rogin Now that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has proven that he has no problem killing peaceful protesters…

Featuring Andrew J. Tabler May 11, 2011 PBS NewsHour Online The Syrian government has stepped up its campaign to quash…

By ANTHONY SHADID DAMASCUS, Syria — Syria’s ruling elite, a tight-knit circle at the nexus of absolute power, loyalty to…

For three decades Osama bin Laden, the tall, shy, lanky, but mesmerizing Saudi, has gripped the imagination of tens of…

In the new Middle East, a previously unthinkable coalition is joining up in defense of Syrian President Bashar al Assad…

May 7, 2011 | 8:12 am You’re the influential brother of your nation’s powerful dictator, now being challenged by ragtag…

Osama bin Laden Largely Discredited Among Muslim Publics in Recent Years In the months leading up to Osama bin Laden’s…

created 05/02/2011 GVF — As the dictatorship in Syria steps up efforts to quell to the uprising against President Bashar…

Metransparent Exclusive: Sources in Syria revealed to Metransparent that South African authorities had, recently, vetoed an official Syrian request to…

The power struggle between Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and President Mahmoud Ahmadinezhad continues. Signs of deep fissures in the…

U.S.-Saudi relations are in crisis. King Abdullah thinks the Obama administration’s love of universal freedoms is naive and inappropriate for…

Iranian leaders have tried to portray the Arab uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt within their revolutionary 1979 framework, casting them…

By Anna Louie Sussman Sidelined within weeks of helping lead the revolution, women face new challenges in post-Mubarak politics A…

By Khaled Yacoub Oweis AMMAN (Reuters) – Protests against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad swept into the capital, Damascus, on Friday…

Policy Alert, April 14, 2011 After three weeks and more than 200 deaths, the uprisings against Syria’s Asad regime appear…

Damascus, Syria IN all my 50 years, I have never held a passport. Other than visiting Lebanon, I’d never left…

Associated Press guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 13 April 2011 Hundreds of women and children were blocking a main coastal highway in Syria…

New Republic Online, April 9, 2011 During the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Syria’s Assad regime was helping insurgents to cross…

Christina Lin POLICY FOCUS #109 | April 2011 China has arrived in the Greater Middle East and appears determined to…

Arash Bahmani When protests erupted and evolved on the streets of Middle East countries, starting with Tunisia, officials of the…

لعلّ خير ما أبتدئ به كلامي هذا هو اقتباس هذه الجمل من قصيدة ”رقيمة على قبر طاغية“ للشاعر و. هـ.…

Featuring Maj. Gen. (IDF, Ret.) Amos Yadlin 2011 Schiff Memorial Lecture Weeks of revolution and turmoil across Arab states underscore…

The following video, received a few minutes ago, show Syrian soldiers fraternizing with protestors in South Syria, Near Deraa. Soldiers…

By Associated Press, Thursday, March 31, 8:39 AM JERUSALEM — The Israeli military on Thursday released a map detailing what…

Authored by Helmi Noman and Jillian C. York. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The OpenNet Initiative has documented network filtering of the Internet…

ForeignPolicy.com, March 30, 2011 More so than the conflicts in Tunisia, Libya, and Bahrain, and perhaps even more than the…

by FRIEDA AFARY (translator) Translator’s note: The following call was issued by a group of Iranian intellectuals and activists on…

By Elliott Abrams, Friday, March 25 While the monarchies of the Middle East have a fighting chance to reform and survive,…

by Andrew Solomon Here’s a story they tell in Libya. Three contestants are in a race to run five hundred…

(London, March 25, 2011) – Syria’s security forces should immediately stop using live ammunition against protesters in the southern town…

PolicyWatch #1786 March 24 marked the sixth straight day of violent protests against Syria’s Bashar al-Asad regime in and around…

It’s quite unfortunate for the Bahriani Shias that they were caught on the wrong end of the stick when it…

by Omar Hasan KUWAIT CITY, March 23, 2011 (AFP) – The announcement of municipal polls, hot on the heels of…

Fellow citizens, I speak to you today amidst extraordinary circumstances surrounding our country. With revolutions and unrest spreading in the…

Revolutions in the Middle East? I hope they go the other way and look for real freedom of mind! ”This…

(Cairo, March 21, 2011) – Syria should cease use of live fire and other excessive force against protestors, as it…

By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF It is heartbreaking to see a renegade country like Libya shoot pro-democracy protesters. But it’s even…

(New York, March 17, 2011) – Syria should immediately release all those detained on March 16, 2011, when security services…

On March 14, the Saudis dispatched military forces to Bahrain, marking a major step in the troubles that have wracked…

Vogue magazine missed the trend: Middle Eastern tyrants are out this season. By BARI WEISS AND DAVID FEITH Maybe it…

Alwatan stopped its well-known female journalists from writing without giving any reasons for its decision. A mass circulation Arabic language…

Not easy to view Wajeha Al Huweider as a “powerful” woman! We had, always, viewed Wajeha as a great lady…

On February 24, 2011, the two leaders of the Iranian opposition Green Movement, Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karrubi, were…

Mustafa Zarti, the first name on the Metransparent Libya black list in under investigation in Austria. Mr Zarti and Mr…

Brussels – The 26 Libyan regime figures hit by European Union sanctions, as published on Thursday: 1. Moamer Gaddafi, Libyan…