Homs, il racconto dei soldati catturati dai disertori
Il canale di Youtube Homslive ha raccolto in un video le confessioni di alcuni soldati semplici e ufficiali dell’esercito regolare di Damasco catturati dai disertori dell’Esercito libero siriano (Els)....
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The Syrian revolution and the loss of innocence
Yassin al-Haj Saleh ha trascorso più di quindici anni nelle prigioni siriane, prima ad Aleppo e poi nel tristemente noto carcere di Palmira per la sua militanza in quello che lui stesso ha definito un...
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Syria, rebels dream of weapons to down aircraft
(Sara Hussein, AFP). On the edge of the Saif al-Dawla district of Aleppo, a commander argues with a rebel. He has ordered him to try to take out a regime tank, alone and with a single rocket-propelled...
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Jordan, Syrian defectors live in secret camp
(Associated Press, 29 agosto 2012). MAFRAQ, Jordan – In an isolated stretch of Jordanian desert, a heavily guarded, secret compound houses 1,200 senior police and army officers who defected from...
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Aleppo, una città divisa
Aerei militari contro fucili. Succede ad Aleppo, nel nord della Siria. Mentre i ribelli si concentrano nelle aree urbane, bombardate indiscriminatamente dall’artiglieria e dagli aerei militari, cresce...
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“Come la guerra in Siria ha diviso la mia famiglia”
(Justin Vela, The National). Loubna Mrie is one of the few who belong to the minority Alawite sect of Syria’s president, Bashar Al Assad, and oppose his rule. The 21-year-old activist, from a village...
View ArticleMaids in the Middle East – Little Better than Slavery
(The Economist, September 4 2010) AS a maid working in Saudi Arabia, Lahanda Purage Ariyawathie suffered at the hands of her Saudi employer and his wife, who skewered her body with at least 24 nails...
View ArticleSOAS Conference – Arabic Pasts: Histories and Historiography
17 September 2010 Aga Khan University – Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations, 210 Euston Road, London, NW1 2DA Jointly organised by the Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations, Aga...
View ArticleChristians in the Middle East –“With us or against us?”
(al-Hayat, November 24, 2010) قبل أن استطرد في ثنايا العنوان الاستفزازي أعلاه، سأسوق الحكاية التالية حين كنت طالباً في المرحلة الإبتدائية في إحدى مدارس مدينتي (الرياض)، كانت لكل طالبين طاولة (ماصة)...
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Erdogan in Beirut – We need a Middle Eastern Schengen area
(The Daily Star, November 26, 2010) Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan called on the Arab states to create a zone resembling Europe’s Schengen area. Speaking at the award giving ceremony held...
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Obama and the Middle East: hard times to be a realist
(Mattia Toaldo* per Aspenia). The Obama Middle East policy could be best interpreted by looking at the “new realism” of the last two years of the Bush presidency. The shift away from “transformative...
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