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Riad al-Turk’s life was a dark mirror of his country’s torments, and his improbable survival was testimony to his will to endure.

Doha: Qatar Press Center yesterday organised a seminar under the title Regional, Global Challenges, Alliances and Their Implications on Gulf Security...

US should deemphasize oil, contain Iran and Iraq, and bolsterallies such as Israel, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia

Co-chair of the Civil Society associations in the region of Tabqa Satam Faraj said intransigence from the part of the Syrian government prolongs the crisis in the country and impedes any solution to the crisis that sweeps the country.  

A long and detailed interview by New Left Review with Hazem Kandil, an Egyptian political sociology scholar at University of California, Los Angeles - about the background and social composition of the 2011 Egyptian revolt and the options for the various forces involved in the political restructuring of Egyptian society.

The Turkish officials and Islamists who once welcomed Syrian Islamic scholar Jawdat Said with great adulation were tellingly absent from the renowned scholar’s low-key funeral. 

The Arab left loses three of its leading lights: Naccache, Kilo, and Zaazaa Perspectives 15 min read 09 Jul, 2021 Opinion: Three towering figures of the Arab left have died since 2020: Tunisian Gilbert Naccache, Syrian Michel Kilo, and Moroccan Abdellah Zaazaa. Khadija Mohsen-Finan revisits their trajectories over 50 years of activism and social upheaval. Gilbert Naccache, Michel Kilo, and Abdellah Zaazaa [L-R] [Orient XXI] Three important figures of the Arab opposition were lost in 2020 ...

April 20, 2021 ALEPPO, Syria — The National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces includes only eight women out of its 86 members, i.e., only 9% of its members are women. At the international level, the coalition is represented by 11 men and two women. According to the coalition’s website, female members are independent figures. This means women in the coalition do not represent any of the political blocs that make up the coalition, including the Damascus Declarati...

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Veteran Syria opposition figure Michel Kilo dies of COVID-19 DALAL MAWAD, Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail 3 1of3FILE - In this July 9, 2012 file photo, Michel Kilo, a Syrian opposition leader and writer, speaks to the media after a meeting with the Russian Foreign Minister, in Moscow, Russia. Kilo, a prominent exiled Syrian opposition figure died Monday, April 19, 2021, of complications from COVID-19 in a hospital in Paris where he lived. Kilo was 81.Alexander Zemlianichenko/...