Hazem Saghieh is political editor of the London-based Arab newspaper al-Hayat
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Published in: HomeSyria's regime and a populist leftSyria under the rule of Hafez al-Assad acquired the image of a bastion of intransigent anti-imperialism that made it...
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Published in: HomeSyria and Iraq: armies, politics, and the future
The shared experience of military repression and failure under Saddam Hussein's Iraq and the al-Assad dynasty in...
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Published in: HomeSyria, an exceptional despotism
Many authoritarian regimes - South Africa, Chile, Poland - have ceded power to the domestic opposition through a...
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Published in: HomeThe Palestine question, and the Arab answer
The Palestinians’ inability to claim their right has been reinforced by long-term failures of thinking and strategy...
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Published in: HomeThe meaning of "revolution"
The Arab uprisings can be situated in the context of long-term global processes that periodically redefine the term...
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Published in: HomeThe Arab revolutions: an end to dogma
The popular uprisings in the Arab world are a great disaster for a radical camp led by Syria-Iran and long indulged...