Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by DAHER Joseph, Tempest
The rebellion in Syria has taken the world by surprise and led to the fall of the Assad family dictatorship, which has ruled Syria since Bashar al-Assad’s father, Hafez, took power in a coup d’etat 54 years ago. Neither the regime’s military forces nor its imperial sponsor, Russia, and its (…)
, by ACHCAR Gilbert
In just a few days, Syria has turned anew into a theatre of war of movement, in what looks like a resumption of the last major displacement of the battlefronts that took place in 2016, when the Assad regime regained control of Aleppo with Iranian and Russian support and Turkish complicity.
In (…)
, by HARMOUCH Sara
The Islamist group had previously pivoted away from global jihadism and toward local government attaining local power?
A major offensive has seen rebel groups in Syria retake the country’s second city, Aleppo – and demonstrated the growing prominence of the Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (…)
, by HAGE Clara
Amid calls to send Syrian migrants or refugees back home, L’Orient-Le Jour looks at the obstacles awaiting them as they cross the border.
Arbitrary arrests, compulsory army conscription and destruction of homes are among the risks to which the returnees are exposed.
While waves of so-called (…)
, by SHABO Rateb
Rateb Shabo
The story of the struggle of Riad Al Turk, leader of the Communist Party “Political Bureau”, against tyranny before and under the Assad regime, deserves the tributes it has received. In truth, the contemporary history of Syria is not poor in similar figures of struggle. But his (…)
, by DAHER Joseph, HAGE Clara
Joseph Daher, a professor at the University of Lausanne, spoke to L’Orient-Le Jour about the increase in strikes on northwest Syria.
This is the most violent escalation Syria has seen in three years. In one month, more than 65 civilians, including 20 children, were killed in strikes targeting (…)
, by DAHER Joseph
A big rise in spending in nominal terms says much more about the collapse of the pound than government spending power, as it continues to drop subsidies, including on fuel
Syria’s Council of Ministers has approved a draft state budget for 2024. By one measure, it is up massively year-on-year, (…)
, by BARAKAT Nawwar
Digging deep into the structure of pre-civil war Syrian society, one can observe an unfortunate peculiarity. Within the fabric of each neighbourhood, including mine of Al-Muhajirin on Mount Qasioun, lies an intricate network of intelligence officers.
They come in the form of siblings, (…)
, by Al-HAJJ SALEH Yassin
How regional and global powers, internal colonialism and Salafi-jihadist subterfuge converged to short-circuit the Syrian struggle against despotism
Syria is a country of only 71,498 square miles in area, with a population of less than 24 million, and yet two global superpowers (the United (…)
, by DAHER Joseph
Recent protests over an end to fuel subsidies, plunging currency and soaring inflation reveal the depth of anger at the government
Southwest Syria has been swept by protests and strikes as the economic crisis in the country has started to feel permanent, bringing people out onto the streets to (…)
, by AL-SHAMI Leila
Yesterday, 25 August, the revolution flag flew high in villages, towns and cities across Syria. In Sweida, Dera’a, Aleppo, Idlib, Raqqa, Hasakeh and Deir Al Zour, thousands were on the streets reviving the chants of the revolution.
Protests erupted in the south of the country a few days ago, (…)
, par DAHER Joseph
On February 6, 2023, Syria experienced a devastating earthquake that resulted in the loss of approximately 6,000 lives and left over 12,000 injured. This catastrophe compounded the vulnerability already faced by the Syrian population and led to significant destruction and material damage. (…)
Syria, the Arab League, and the counter-revolutionary process
After enforcing the suspension and isolation of Bashar al-Assad’s dictatorship for the last twelve years, the Arab League voted to welcome it back to membership on May 7, 2023. Then, on May 19, Assad was included in the League’s (…)
, by DAHER Joseph
The 6 February 2023 earthquake in Syria killed at least 6,200 people and injured nearly 15,000, mostly in areas outside the control of the Syrian regime. It mainly affected the governorates of Idlib, Aleppo, Latakia (and to a lesser extent Hama).
At least 8.8 million people were affected by (…)
, par LUCAS Scott
Damascus is putting politics above its people as it hinders the international aid response.
It didn’t take long for Syria’s Assad regime to seek political and economic benefit from the devastation of an earthquake. As emergency services were reaching victims of the 7.8-magnitude tremor on (…)
, by Al-HAJJ SALEH Yassin
Up to recently, it had seemed that many people in the west think that the Russian War in Ukraine is qualitatively different from the one it has been leading for six years and a half in Syria. While one witnesses international outrage at the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and European countries are (…)
, by Al-HAJJ SALEH Yassin
A leading Syrian intellectual takes on the famous linguist, arguing that Americentrism blinds the latter from the reality of the revolution
Just three weeks following my release after 16 years in prison in Syria, I started translating a book into Arabic. The book was “Powers and Prospects: (…)
, by DAHER Joseph
After the gradual lifting on subsidies for oil derivatives, in 2020 and particularly 2021, Damascus took a next important step, on 1 February 2022. It announced the exclusion of approximately 600,000 families from its subsidy programme; something like three million people in total (based on an (…)
, by DAHER Joseph
For decades, the Assads have tried projecting an image of themselves as “secular” bulwarks against religious extremism. All the while, they’ve been shoring up the powers of loyalist religious institutions and stoking sectarian divisions as a tool for control, argues Joseph Daher.
“I also want (…)
, by ETZBACH Harald, MUNIF Yasser
Yasser Munif on the lessons of the Syrian revolution and beyond
Harald Etzbach spoke with Yasser Munif about the theoretical and methodological approaches of his book The Syrian Revolution: Between the Politics of Life and the Geopolitics of Death, the limitations of geopolitical thinking, (…)
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