Syrians used to tell a joke about a survey that asked “what is your opinion of eating meat?” This was…
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Syria’s refugees pay a cruel price as the conflict keeps spreading
A Syrian friend of mine complained, rightly, that both sides in the country’s civil war have had a hand in…
Continue reading →Charles Glass: With Annan’s Exit and Influx of Foreign Arms, Syria’s Violence “Seems the Only Way Out”
Kofi Annan’s resignation is a serious setback for anyone who’d hoped that there could be a diplomatic resolution to this…
Continue reading →Syria can be preserved by the subtle route of compromise
In the past week, Syrian opposition groups have issued two contrasting appeals to the international community. On Saturday 28 July,…
Continue reading →The Country That Is the World: Syria’s Clashing Communities
The population of Syria is so inharmonious a gathering of widely different races in blood, in creed, and in custom,…
Continue reading →Syria’s many new friends are a self-interested bunch
Last week France hosted the third conference of the Group of Friends of the Syrian People, a collection of 107…
Continue reading →Syria: The Citadel & the War
Archaeologists believe that human beings settled on the hilltop that became Aleppo – some 225 miles north of Damascus –…
Continue reading →Veteran Mideast Journalist Charles Glass on Syria’s Violence & the Prospect of Military Intervention
The United States and 11 other countries have formally expelled Syrian diplomats following a massacre of more than 100 people…
Continue reading →Colonial threads combine to strangle a sectarian Syria
Twenty-five years ago, I travelled by land through what geographers called Greater Syria to write a book. I began in…
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Review of Levant: Splendour and Catastrophe on the Mediterranean by Philip Mansel John Murray, 480 pp, £10.99, September 2011, ISBN…
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