In terms of details, no one can tell for sure what is happening in the country at this stage. The regime continues to arrest and clash with militants. Or, are they just glorified smugglers? Or is the regime turning against its erstwhile protégés because they outlived their usefulness? Or is there an internal clash and settling of old and new scores within the ranks of the regime? Or are all these things happening together and at the same time? No one really knows. Continue reading “Malgré tout!”
Year: 2005
A Necessary (?) Interlude of Self-Pity!
Or… “A few disjointed thoughts by a fragmented man!”
Who am I?
What is my worth?
How shall I be judged, when the day comes and I am to be judged?
Who will stand in judgment over me? You, my love? Will I be so lucky?
Whose judgment should matter the most to me anyway, – I the one who “inspires” strangers and hurts the ones he loves. Continue reading “A Necessary (?) Interlude of Self-Pity!”
Smithsonian Magazine: Syria at a Crossroads
By Stephen Glain, July 2005.
Two months after the publication of this feature, my family and I were forced into exile with my family. The article itself was not the problem, at issue were the activities and statements to which the article referred. The entire article can be read at this link. These are the paragraphs that related to me: Continue reading “Smithsonian Magazine: Syria at a Crossroads”
Brother/Sister, Where Art Thou?
This is the study that I have prepared during my first stint as a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution (July-December 2004). Though completed, the study was never published by Brookings, it was simply too whimsical to pass as a policy paper, and although I had permission to publish it elsewhere while acknowledging that it was prepared at Brookings, I got too caught up with the activities of the Tharwa Project and my the interrogations I faced upon my return to Syrian to follow up on this. Continue reading “Brother/Sister, Where Art Thou?”
The Ammar Abdulhamid Archive 