Middle East 4 ChangeSyria’s forgotten revolutionaries
Wednesday, July 6, 2016
Patrick Ward Bookwitty Interview with Leila al-Shami In 2011 the Arab Spring swept the Middle East and North Africa. Millions of people rose up against dictatorships across the…
Resistance of political prisoners in Syria and Iran
Wednesday, May 25, 2016
Joseph Daher Alliance of Middle East Socialist The repressive policies and actions of authoritarian regimes to crush popular movements and resistance has increased the number of political prisoners…
What Is The Kurdish Calculation In Rojava?
Tuesday, April 19, 2016
Fehim Taştekin interviews Eldar Halill Links The US Department of State and the Pentagon had given certain warnings to the YPG, in an attempt to appease Turkey’s anger…
Struggle for a Democratic Socialism in the Middle East: Interview
Thursday, April 14, 2016
Joseph Daher Problematica/Syria Freedom Forever Recent mass movements in Middle Eastern and North African countries, despite their defeats and failures, showed prospects and possibilities of a progressive change…
Assad’s fateful choice
Tuesday, April 12, 2016
David W Leach Syria Comment This spring marks the fifth year anniversary of the events that launched a civil war in Syria. Typically, there were some huge miscalculations…
The revolution continues, chant Syrian revolutionaries
Monday, April 11, 2016
Syrian freedom forever On Friday March 4, 2016 massive popular demonstrations throughout the liberated areas of Syria occurred under the slogan “The revolution continues”. More than 100 protests…
The perils and promise of wartime analysis: Lessons from Syria
Sunday, April 10, 2016
Ghaleb Attrache Berkley Journal of Sociology For many, the “Syrian tragedy” is a prime example of popular aspirations gone disastrously awry, the “revolution-turned-civil-war”. Was any of this was…
Burning country: Syrians in revolution and war
Saturday, April 9, 2016
Robin Yassin-Kassab Syria Solidarity UK Talk given at LSE on March 21 2016. Robin Yassin Kassab is author of Road from Damascus and is closely involved with the…
Kurdish PYD leader: Time has proved us right
Saturday, April 9, 2016
Interview by Karlos Zurutuza Links Salih Muslim Muhammad is co-chairman of the Democratic Union Party – PYD, the political force that has led the uprising of the Kurds in…
The end of Syria’s Baathist dictatorship?
Thursday, April 7, 2016
Fred H Lawson Le Monde Diplomatique As Syria’s civil war enters its sixth year, President Bashar al-Assad finds himself steadily gaining strength relative to the country’s disparate collection…
A brief history of ISIS – ISIS emerged out of the dashed hope of the Arab Spring
Tuesday, December 22, 2015
by Adam Hanieh Jacobin In the wake of the November 13 attacks in Paris, much of the Left has linked the rise of the Islamic State of Iraq…
Syrian Democratic and Revolutionary Opposition
Monday, December 14, 2015
Interview with Joseph Daher Radio Zamaneh Joseph Daher is a Syrian-Swiss Marxist intellectual with a PhD in Development at the University of SOAS, London. He is also a member of Solidarités…