by Nazeer Rida | Oct 5, 2013 | Middle East
Beirut, Asharq Al-Awsat—The head of the Syrian National Coalition (SNC), Ahmed Al-Jarba, held a meeting with 30 senior Free Syrian Army (FSA) leaders in Istanbul on Thursday in a bid to resolve disputes over the Syrian opposition’s participation in prospective Geneva...
by Fathi Abu Bakr Al-Maraghi | Oct 3, 2013 | Debate
Despite the sectarian, ethnic, linguistic, and ideological diversity in the Middle East, there are some ground rules governing the political arena in the region. It is true that some of these rules are not as much logical as customary, others are considered to be...
by Maziar Behrooz | Oct 3, 2013 | Debate
Much of the ruling establishment of the Islamic Republic of Iran welcomed the Arab Spring when it broke out in Tunisia and Egypt. After all, events in those two countries removed two secular and pro-American Arab regimes that had been on hostile terms with Iran. This...
by Michel Kilo | Aug 31, 2013 | Opinion
So just why did the Assad regime use chemical weapons? A simple and direct answer to that question is that the Assad regime used chemical weapons because criminality is a core philosophy of this regime, which has ruled Syria over the past five decades according to the...
by Hannah Lucinda Smith | Aug 30, 2013 | Features
Menbej, Asharq Al-Awsat—It should have been a day for celebration in Menbej. In late July, the small town in the north of Aleppo province marked a year of freedom from the regime of Bashar Al-Assad—a year of “liberation,” in the language of the opposition. In July...
