Bashar al-Assad Category

Is international diplomacy working?

Posted on February 23, 2012     Leave a Comment

Hello all. I’m writing this instead of revising for my mocks, planning university applications and generally doing things I need to do. But, you know, if I don’t blog for a while I get really cranky. Really cranky. Anyway, what do I have to say today… Firstly, a word or several on Syria. Along with […]

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Blood takes the spring out of Syria’s revolution

Posted on August 14, 2011     Leave a Comment

We first watched unrest on the streets of Syria in March, five months ago. By that time Egypt and Tunisia had toppled their dictators – and the whole Arab world seemed to be ablaze with possibility. As observers in the West, we naively expected Libya and Syria to go the same way, prehaps so did […]

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