Tag: Syria

Michael T. Klare: The Cold War Redux?

May 2013

Are Washington, Moscow, and Beijing using the global arms trade to create a new Cold War?

Mimi Hanaoka: Misadventures with the Mukhabarat

May 2013

How can you prove to the Syrian secret police that you’re not an Algerian spy?

Assad’s Castaways

May 2013

A portrait of Syria’s child-refugees in Antakya, Turkey.

Jon Lee Anderson: In the Field, In Over Your Head

April 2013

The veteran war reporter’s advice to young journalists on safety, story, five-sense reporting, and the uses of rumor.

Revolution Download

April 2013

Among the rebels in war-torn Syria.

Dafna Lizer, Michael Grabell, Jeff Larson: Flight Records Say Russia Sent Syria Tons of Cash

November 2012

he records of overflight requests show more than 200 tons of “bank notes” from Moscow to Damascus.

Richard Falk: Persisting Syrian Dilemmas

October 2012

Hope, wisdom, law, ethics, and spirituality in relation to killing and dying in Syria.

Cunning and Guile

October 2012

What can The One Thousand and One Nights teach the modern world?

Jen Marlowe: Terror and Teargas on the Streets of Bahrain

September 2012

Protests in Bahrain have been largely ignored in Western media, but they shouldn’t be.

Richard Falk: What Can Be Done About Syria?

June 2012

Why tragedy and impotence mark the struggle in Syria.

أنا وبس: My People Love Me

April 2012

Through YouTube and Vimeo, these artists give their fellow Syrians a voice.

Bridging the Dignity Gap

April 2012

From Cairo to Wall Street, are we in the midst of a historic shift in the way governments relate to their citizens?

Danny Thiemann: In Syria, “Holding a Camera is a Death Sentence”

March 2012

Danny Thiemann interviews the founders of the Syrian citizen-journalist movement.