From an uprising to a civil war dynamic?
Der Spiegel have published an interview with an injured fighter from Homs, seeking treatment in Lebanon. The account he provides confirms a ‘Human Rights Watch’ report on human rights violations by [...]
Tag Archives: Saudi Arabia
Ethnic chauvinism, sectarianism and the survival of the Saudi monarchy
Professor Gulshan Dietel has written an insightful op-ed on the expansion of the ‘Arab spring’ to Saudi-Arabia. Importantly she ties in the Saudi monarchy’s strategy of ethnic chauvinism and sectarianism, [...]
Covering Syria: the logic of alliances
There are similarities between the current largest opposition coalition (the ‘Syrian National Council’ [SNC]) and Syrian opposition coalitions from the past. Returning to the early 1980s, the Muslim Brotherhood formed a broad [...]
Forsaken uprisings
‘Syrian National Council’ (SNC) spokespersons often describe the Syrian uprising as the forlorn uprising, with citizens left to the monstorous machine of the regime’s repressive security apparatus. However, when like [...]
The self-righteous moralising of Saud al-Faisal
Saud al-Faisal, the foreign minister of the Saudi monarchy, cited a moral imperative to denounce the Syrian regime for its repression and outrageous violence. Yet, the Saudi monarchy, in coordination [...]
US, Saudis and Russia Vie for Influence in Post-Assad Syria
Real News have published an insightful interview with Hamid Dabashi (see below), that focuses on the geopolitics of the Syria crisis. He correctly articulates the issue as not a humanitarian concern with the [...]
The Syrian National Council and the Saudi monarchy
Below is a Syrian National Council advertisement published in the Saudi monarchy owned Al-Hayat newspaper. It is signed by the Syrian National Council, Association of Syrian Scholars, Conference of Muslim [...]
Clarification on a mistake: returning to the story of the kidnapped Iranian engineers
I originally posted the story of the capture of claimed Iranian ‘Revolutionary Guard’ soldiers by a group claiming itself as ‘Al-Farouq Brigade’ of the ‘Free Syrian Army’. In the post [...]
Saudi-Arabia and the Syrian National Council
A statement of condolence from the Syrian National Council to the Saudi king, upon the death of crown prince Sultan al-Saud, ended with the following statement: The Syrian National Council affirms the [...]
An American and French escalation for Syria?
The GCC countries are pushing through an Arab League initiative to freeze Syria’s membership, though with some obstacles, indicating a significant step in what is becoming a joint effort to [...]
