Category Archives: syria

We must get the media into Syria to sift truth from lies

Now is the Arab Spring become Syrian winter. Yet Syria faces not simply an uprising against dictatorship but a civil…

This is not a good time to be running the Middle East desk at the State Department. If you happen…

David Cameron spoke with unusual candour for a British prime minister a few days ago when he told university students…

In the autumn of 1972, arriving in Lebanon as a graduate student at the American University of Beirut, I discovered…

When Syria’s young president, Bashar Assad, contemplates the forces ranged against him, he may recall that his father faced greater…

Amid the squat concrete towers and traffic bridges of the new and expanding Damascus, a few mud-brick houses endure like…