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During the first two hours of the military onslaught on Al-Tadamon nearly 5,000 people - mostly women and children - were displaced, including hundreds of internally displaced people originally from other parts of Syria.
There is a unique opportunity for France to recast its policy towards a changing Arab world by focusing on the region's people and Palestinian rights. This would make Paris a global leader and benefit everyone, says Khaled Hroub.
Whether they are benefiting or are being harmed by the current situation in Syria, what role do the various regional and international actors play and how do Syrians deal with them? They are fully aware that the external stances with regards to their revolution will not be the most crucial ones fo
We need to re-think the whole relation between the west and the Arabs on moral grounds. The choice cannot be between either a military intervention on the Iraqi model, or a cynical neutral attitude.
Arab Awakening's columnists offer their weekly perspective on what is happening on the ground in the Middle East. Leading the week: Rita from Syria tells a harrowing tale of narrowly escaping death and the lesson she learned in the process.
The family that rescued us was a conservative Sunni family, but I felt closer to them than the young driver who belongs to the same sect as I do. Why?
The incident of the downing of the Turkish fighter jet has demonstrated once again the unity of the Syrian people against whatever may threaten the country's security and sovereignty.
A new generation's encounter with the Armenian genocide of 1915 is producing fresh understandings of Turkey's - and the middle east's - modern history, finds Vicken Cheterian.
Fifty years of security repression and the rupture between the opposition and political work in Syria have forced an environment of mistrust, weakness and inexperience among all the opposition’s factions without any exception.
An elJokh wiper is a person who tries to gain personal influence from ‘sucking up’ to the powerful and rich.
The new generations of children and students have been inspired by the revolutionary uprising that has spread throughout the Arab world.
