Issa Khalaf, a Palestinian-American, has a D. Phil. in Politics and Middle East Studies from Oxford University
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe once and future Syria
A negotiated peace may be Syria’s only salvation from imminent demise, but internal complexities and strategically...
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Published in: HomeSyria: the danger of false dichotomies
How one defines Syria’s troubles determines one’s prescriptions. Evidence that a silent majority did not want...
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Published in: HomeThe unmaking of Syria: beneath the fog
One can no longer say that Syria is a moderate, pragmatic, stabilizing and secular regional centre keeping extremism...
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Published in: HomeThe unmaking of Syria
The Saudi regime and Washington are fundamentally working at cross-purposes, for the Saudis’ nemesis is...
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Published in: HomeSyria’s inscrutability
Syria is hard to categorize in relation to the Arab spring, because of its people’s multifaceted relationship to the...
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Published in: HomeThe tragedy that is Iraq
Totalitarian rule, war, sanctions, invasion, destruction, sectarian suspicions, western manipulation all have...