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Uncharted Waters: Thinking Through Syria's Dynamics
[The following is the latest from the International Crisis Group (ICG) on developments in Syria.] Uncharted Waters: Thinking Through Syria's Dynamics Policy Briefing Middle East Briefing No. 31 Overview The Syrian crisis may or may not have entered its final phase, but it undoubtedly has entered its most ... Read More »
Making Sense of Developments in Egypt and Syria: A KPFA Interview with Jadaliyya Co-Editors Hesham Sallam and Bassam Haddad
In the following interviews with KPFA's Khalil Bendib and Sharam Aghamir, Jadaliyya Co-Editors Hesham Sallam and Bassam Haddad, discuss developments in Egypt and Syria, respectively (listen below). In his interview, Hesham Sallam (between the two minute mark and the thirty-four minute mark) highlights ... Read More »
"هنا، هناك"
غرفة فسيحة سقفها عالٍ. جدرانها الكئيبة، باخ لونها، تملؤها الكتابات. سرير ضيق يشغل فسحة صغيرة وهزيلة، قطعة الأثاث الوحيدة في الغرفة. أعلى الجدار، شباك صغير تملأ فراغه قضبان سميكة موشاة بالصدأ. يقف حليم فوق السرير حافي القدمين. يثني ركبتيه. يستجمع طاقته الضئيلة المتبقية. يقفز في الهواء. يزقزق السرير المعدن. يقفز من ... Read More »
من يتآمر على سورية؟
بعد تفكك خطاب الامارات السلفية والعصابات المسلحة، وظهور تهافته، لجأ النظام السوري الى خطاب المؤامرة الاستعمارية، وخصوصا بعد قرار الجامعة العربية. وهو خطاب يلاقي الكثير من الهوى عند بعض القوى السياسية لأنه يغطي خطابها الفئوي بمسألة مبدئية تتعلق بالتصدي للقوى الكولونيالية الطامعة في ثروات المنطقة العربية، ويجد بعض ... Read More »
Framing Syria
Over the last forty years, the Assad regime has mastered the method of burying our stories almost as well as burying our people. Our cities, like their residents, carry the scars of brutality, hiding decades of bloody secrets within their thick stone walls. One city in particular, Hama, lives with a ... Read More »
November Culture Bouquet
Flowers in November? Yes! After a long, hot summer’s break Jadaliyya Culture returns with another bouquet, as bright as any we have given you before, but this time a bit heavier. Maybe as heavy as a pagan rock sitting on display in the national museum of a theocratic state. Highlights include: — Hamdy ... Read More »
Betrayals of Language and Silence
The Costliest Dream in the World Many talked to me about the charge that led Mazen to prison. I do not know why I always felt that they were adding all kinds of spices to the story. The whole thing seemed like one big heap of spices from the very beginning. At first, you could only be suspicious as you see the ... Read More »
Plucking Out the Heart of Power: Al-Qawqa`a
“I looked at the people. I examined their faces – that apathy…I wondered, how many of them know what happened and is happening in the desert prison? I wondered, how many of them care? Is this “the people” the politicians talk about so much?...Is it possible that this great people don’t know what’s happening in ... Read More »
After the Spring: Thoughts on Cultural Production and the Selling Power of Change
“After the Spring: New Short Plays from the Arab World.” Performed at the Royal Court Theatre, London, August 2011. As part of their international “Rough Cuts” project, the Royal Court Theatre specially commissioned a series of four short plays from the Arab world in a program entitled “After the Spring,” in response ... Read More »
A Syrian Activist in Hiding: Democracy Now! Interview with Razan Zaitouneh
Daily protests continue in Syria even as the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights estimates the government has killed more than 3,500 people during the last eight months in its attempt to silence a growing popular uprising. Over the weekend, protesters carried out a general strike in several ... Read More »
Democracy Now! Interview with Jadaliyya Co-Editor Bassam Haddad on Uprising and Intervention in Syria
This is an interview conducted with Jadaliyya Co-Editor Bassam Haddad on Monday, 14 November, in regards to regime-opposition dynamics in Syria and the prospects for external intervention. Today the European Union decided to impose sanctions on 18 Syrians in response to the killings of protesters by Syrian forces ... Read More »
سايكس- بيكو الجديدة أم أغنياء النفط
يستمد محمد حسنين هيكل أهميته من قدرته على ضخ أفكار جديدة في الحقل السياسي العربي. وقد أغنى هذا الحقل، مؤخراً، بفرضيات عن مشروع للغرب، على غرار سايكس ـ بيكو يستهدف تقسيم واقتسام العالم العربي، لا بواسطة الجغرافيا، كما كان الشأن في الماضي، بل عن طريق الموارد والمواقع هذه المرّة. إن مجرد إلصاق تسمية من نوع ... Read More »
المجلس الوطني وهيئة التنسيق: استعصاء الاداة ام اقتسام العجز؟
حمص (المدينة 'المنكوبة' حسب التعبير القاصر الذي استخدمه 'المجلس الوطني السوري'، وكأنّ زلزالاً ألمّ بالحجر والبشر!) لم يكن ينقصها إلا تلك 'النكبة' الأخرى التي شهدتها العاصمة المصرية أمام مقرّ الجامعة العربية. كانت دبابات النظام ومدفعيته وطائراته الحربية تواصل حصد الأرواح بدم بارد، وهمجية منفلتة من كلّ عقال، حين توافد ... Read More »
"It's Simply an Announcement of Death"
It is not easy to talk to an activist from Homs about his city; as you are talking, you find yourself alternating between laughter and tears without even realizing it. What could one possibly ask about a city that has lost more than 1,200 martyrs since the start of the revolution? Despite these losses, Syrians still ... Read More »
Burhan Ghalioun Address to the Syrian People (Video and Translated Transcript)
[The following speech was given by prominent Syrian opposition leader, and president of the Syrian National Council, Burhan Ghalioun as an address to the Syrian people on 5 November 2011. The original Arabic speech is shown in the video below. English translated transcription by Ziad Abu-Rish.] Oh great Syrian ... Read More »
Conflict Risk Alert: Syria's Tipping Point
[The following is the latest from the International Crisis Group (ICG) on Syria.] Conflict Risk Alert: Syria's Tipping Point Brussels, 3 November 2011 Syria's acceptance of the Arab League proposal to defuse the crisis presents an eleventh-hour opportunity to seek a negotiated transition before the conflict takes ... Read More »
Portraits of a People
In the end, after the terror, torture, and murder, the tyrant rules with his face. The people cannot escape it, his image is all-consuming, devouring our streets, our walls, our shops, our screens. His face erases all others. Either you become a reflective surface for his image, or you disappear, literally and ... Read More »
The Dynamics of the Uprising in Syria
Most people interested in Syrian affairs used to believe that the country was extremely stable. The regime’s media fed this belief, constantly reiterating the assertion that Syria was the most secure and stable country in the world. In fact, however, this stability was merely a veneer. In reality, ... Read More »
ياسين الحاج صالح ومرارة الإعتقال في سورية
في حوار مع الصحفي محمد الحجيري لجريدة الجريدة الكويتية يروي الكاتب السوري ياسين الحاج صالح، الذي أمضى نحو عقد ونصف العقد في السجن البعثي السوري لأسباب سياسيَّة، تجربته خلف القضبان عن المنامات والزمن والمرأة والحياة والآخرين. كيف تصف الزمن خلف القضبان وعلى أي ساعة يمشي، خصوصاً أنك كنت تمضي وقتك من دون محاكمة أي أنك ... Read More »
A Short Syrian Film (Video)
The following short film was directed by Dani Abo Louh and Mohamad Omran. It was recently released via Vimeo. Read More »
A Syrian American in Paris
Last week, on the day after the day Steve Jobs died to the rest of the world, on another bloody Friday in Syria, Mashaal Tammo was murdered. Tammo, a beloved Kurdish activist and leader, member of the newly-formed Syrian National Council (SNC), was gunned down by four men in his home in the northeastern ... Read More »
بين فيتوين
هناك حلقة مفقودة في قراءة العرب لواقعهم السياسي في زمن الثورات العربية الديمقراطية. وهي لم تثر للأسف قلق المحللين الذين اكتفوا بأحد موقفين: إما تمجيد الثورة، باعتبارها بداية عصر جديد سوف تعم فيه الحرية والديمقراطية، او ادانتها ووصفها بالمؤامرة الامبريالية التي تؤكد منطق السياسات الاستعمارية في المنطقة، من خيانتها ... Read More »
Entrevista a Fawaz Trabulsi, historiador y escritor libanes: Siria, Yemen y la Primavera Arabe
[This interview was conducted by Ahmad Shokr and Anjali Kamat, and translated/published in Spanish by www.rebelion.org] Entrevista a Fawaz Trabulsi, historiador y escritor libanés: Siria, Yemen y la Primavera Árabe [Traducido para Rebelion por Loles Olivan.] Ahmad Shokr y Anjali Kamat (AS y AK): El ... Read More »
Deadly Detention: Deaths in Custody and Popular Protest in Syria
[The following is the latest from Amnesty International on human rights voiolations in Syria.] Deadly Detention: Deaths in Custody and Popular Protest in Syria Since the end of 2010, millions of people across the Middle East and North Africa region have taken to the streets to call for greater rights and ... Read More »
"Arab Talk" Interview with Jadaliyya Co-Editor Bassam Haddad on Syria and Arab Uprisings
This interview was conducted with Jadaliyya Co-Editor Bassam Haddad by Jess Ghannam of KPOO's "Arab Talk." The interview discusses the domestic, regional, and international implications of of the Arab uprisings, specifically what these uprisings mean for the future of Arab politics, the foreign policies of ... Read More »
أين "اليسار" من سوريا؟ الجزء الأول
المقال من ترجمة يوسف حداد إن معارضة النظام الاسرائيلي العنصري ورياء سياسات الولايات المتحدة في الشرق الأوسط تسوغها حجج ملموسة. إن إدانة الأنظمة المتسلطة في العالم العربي والنضال ضدها يرتكزان أيضا ً على مبررات موضوعية. كما وإن ما يدعونا، لا بل يحتم علينا، دعم المقاومة في الحالتين المذكورتين آنفا ً مبني على ... Read More »
Poem For Syria
"Defenders of the realm Peace be on you Our proud spirits will Not be subdued” -Syrian National Anthem soft white syrian jasmine blooms and showers the land where my mother lived diagonally across the street from my father its scent flutters delicately in the air over ... Read More »
The Arab Spring and Adunis' Revolution, in Context
A Reply to Sinan Antoon Sinan Antoon’s July 11, 2011 article entitled “The Arab Spring and Adunis’ Autumn” paints a less than flattering picture of Adunis’ response to the ongoing revolution in Syria. While much of Antoon’s criticism is on target, I believe he does Adunis a disservice by omitting and distorting key ... Read More »
ميشيل كيلو: تطورات يجب أن تتوقف.. الثورة لا يصنعها الملائكة ولا حملة السلاح
تلوح في أفق الوضع السوري علامات مقلقة إلى أقصى حد، تزيد إلى درجة كارثية المخاطر التي تكتنفه. أهمها إطلاقا نزعة الاستئثار التي بدأ صوتها يتعالى هنا وهناك، والدعوة إلى حمل السلاح، وتزايد الشعارات والهتافات المذهبية، التي سيحدث تزايدها نقلة مخيفة في أهداف الحراك المجتمعي: قد تأخذه من مطلب الحرية إلى كارثة النزاع ... Read More »
الكنائس والحراك الثوري في سوريا
عوّدتنا الآية الإنجيلية الشائعة على الألسن "دع ما لقيصر لقيصر وما لله لله" على استبطان حكم مسبق على دور الدين والمؤسسات الدينية المسيحية في الحراك السياسي. والحال أن المسألة السياسية في الفكر المسيحي، بالغة التبدل والتنوع، وفق الأوضاع الاجتماعية والظروف المحيطة. لذلك تشهد بعض الفضاءات المسيحية تطورا لافتا ... Read More »
Syrian Population Regression
Population: ~ 22.5 Million
2011: 5,800+ (killed)
2012: 60,000+ (killed) and 500,000+ (external refugees)
2013: 70,000+ (killed) and 1,000,000+ (external refugees)
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Syria Map and Stats
Population: 22,517,750
GDP: $107.4 billion
Unemployment: 8.3%; Youth Employment (ages 15-24): 19.1%
Internet Users: 4.469 million
Exchange Rate: ~ 98.00 Syrian pounds per US dollar
GDP Growth Rate: 3.2%
Military Expenditures: 5.9% of GDP (World Rank: 10)
Health Expenditures: 2.9% of GDP (World Rank: 180)
Population Growth Rate: 0.913%
Age Structure: 0-14 years: 35.2%; 15-64 years: 61%; 65 years and over: 3.8%
Literacy: 79.6%
Religious Demographics: Sunni Muslim 74%; other Muslim (includes Alawite, Druze) 16%; Christian (various denominations) 10%
Ethnic Demographics: Arab 90.3%, Kurds, Armenians, and other 9.7%
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