Ammar Abdulhamid is a Syrian author, blogger and dissident. He runs the Tharwa Foundation, an independent initiative that focuses on diversity issues in the region.
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Commentaries by Ammar Abdulhamid
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Defending America’s “Freedom Agenda”
Former Syrian MP and political prisoner Mamoun al-Homsi, Kurdish activist Djengizkhan Hasso of the Executive Council of the National Assembl…
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Is Dialogue with Iran and Syria Worth It?
Despite frequent claims to the contrary, the fundamental problem in the Middle East is not intervention by the West. On the contrary, the re…
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Cradle of Contradictions
The American-led invasion of Iraq was supposed to begin a process of transformation across the Middle East. Syrian poet and political analys…
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Is Syria Next?
The recent allegation by US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld that Syria is smuggling war materiel into Iraq raises the ominous prospect …
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Syria's Culture of Fear and Stalemate
It is not surprising that the new, young leader of an Arab country should be tremendously concerned, during his first years in office, with …
