July 08, 2006 12:00 AM / Ammar Abdulhamid
What do the Assads of Syria think they are doing? Hardly a day goes by in the country without another activist being arrested, banned from traveling abroad, or sentenced to a long prison term. Occasionally, particularly in the case of alleged members of the Muslim Brotherhood, they are handed down a symbolic death sentence – symbolic because these are almost immediately commuted to imprisonment. Continue reading “Syria’s serial exporters of instability”
5 تموز، 2006 / مدونة “أقوال وأفكار”
كل من ثمّن الحرية لذاتها يؤمن في قرارة نفسه بأن حرية الخيار، وألاّ يقوم أحد بالاختيار بالنيابة عنا، هي عنصر أساسي فيما يجعل الإنسان إنساناً؟ إسحاق برلين، “مفهومان للحرية” 1959 Continue reading “الحرية والإنسانية”
First posted on my short-lived blog Tharwalizations.
Guantanamo is a disgrace. No one can deny that, and the recent ruling to the effect that the Bush administration had violated both American military law and the Geneva Convention in ordering the military tribunals comes as an official endorsement of point of view. Indeed, and due to the fact that such a glaring abuse of human rights is being perpetrated by the very administration that is supposed to champion the cause of democracy and human rights around the world should naturally be noted and condemned by people from around the world. Continue reading “Shutting Down Guantanamo”
