They are the 9,000 unsung heroes of Syria
April 21, 2013
Erksoussi is quite blunt about it. Our interest is the people in need. Just that. We don't ask people if they love the government. Sometimes we retrieve military personnel. Soldiers wounded in opposition areas – they are brought to us and we bring them here to Damascus...
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'We don't really know what war is like'
April 18, 2013
The unbearable lightness of being.” I apologise to Milan Kundera, who wrote the line. But this is Damascus and that is the only title. I was on the phone less than 24 hours ago, offering my pathetic condolences to an old friend. ...
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Measure cost of war by human tragedy
March 18, 2013
What is a child's life worth against all the antiquities of Syria? Any reflection of Syria's architectural disasters must include this question....
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What's in a name? But please, no more maps!
March 06, 2013
In Syria these days, we are resorting to our racist little maps. The Alawite mountains and the town of Qardaha, home of the Assad family – colour it dark red...
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Canada is the latest front in Syrian civil war now
February 11, 2013
The Syrian civil war has “spilled over” into... Canada. Now you might say that the land Generals Wolfe and Montcalm died for on the Plains of Abraham doesn't have a lot in common with the Arab world...
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How many have actually died in the killing fields of Syria?
January 07, 2013
One reason, of course, why the pro-opposition “Syrian Observatory” suspects the UN figure is inflated, is that the ladies and gentlemen of the Human Rights Commission want to heap more coals of derision upon the slumbering ...
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Must understand the history
December 31, 2012
I've heard all kinds of reasons for the Arab-Israeli failure to agree on UN Security Council Resolution 242...
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