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A Syrian refugee woman looks from a bus as the ferry ‘Diagoras’ is reflected on it after its arrival at the port of Piraeus, near Athens, Greece, on September 8, 2015. (EPA/Yannis Kolesidis)


Opinion: The Syrians between a Rock and a Hard Place

Opinion: The Syrians between a Rock and a Hard Place

Russia’s Vladimir Putin is never tired. He is still actively promoting a “peace deal” in Syria that keeps Bashar Al-Assad and those backing him as an integral part of the “solution” to Syria’s crisis, although the only “solution” Assad has sought since March 2011 is...
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Migrant families walk at the railway track at the Hungarian–Serbian border near Roszke village, on September 6, 2015. Europe is deeply divided over how to handle the continent’s biggest refugee crisis since the end of World War II. (AFP Photo/Csaba Segesvari)


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Lebanese Prime Minister Tammam Salam in Beirut, in February 2015. (Asharq Al-Awsat)


Lebanon PM: We must elect a president soon

Lebanon PM: We must elect a president soon

Beirut, Asharq Al-Awsat—Lebanon is struggling to cope with its myriad domestic problems—rooted in a complex confessional political system—while at the same time attempting to contain the violent spillover from the war raging in next-door Syria. The small country of 4...
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Rain clouds loom over the skyline of Giza, Egypt,on Thursday, Dec. 12, 2013 in Cairo, Egypt. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)


The Arab Spring’s Improbable Refugees

The Arab Spring’s Improbable Refugees

Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat—In a small hotel on Cairo’s Shahab Street the broken dreams of the Arab Spring gather. Three men congregate in the lobby. They watch a Premier League game and share stories of how they lost everything. The hotel guests include Khaled, a Yemeni...
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A Syrian worker living in Lebanon carries wood on his shoulder at a sawmill in the town of Aqbieh, southern Lebanon, on May 22, 2012. (Reuters/Ali Hashisho)


Between Beirut and a Hard Place

Between Beirut and a Hard Place

Beirut, Asharq Al-Awsat—Designed to help Lebanon cope with the massive, transforming influx of over a million refugees into a small country of 4 million, new regulations for Syrians entering Lebanon introduced this week mean many migrant Syrians are now confronted...