The Assad brothers and Shawkat are “the trinity in charge of the country,” said Ammar Abdulhamid, a Syria expert at the Brookings Institution in Washington.
Category: Activism & Advocacy
SYRIAN PRESIDENT FACES INTERNATIONAL AND INTERNAL PRESSURE
A mention in News Hour Online:
“Bashar [Assad] is being asked to get rid of the old guard and create a new government,” Ammar Abdulhamid, a Syrian activist and visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, said at a press briefing. “This is what is expected of him. It’s the only way he can cooperate with the [Mehlis] investigation.”
The General & the Heretic!
Reading the name of my chief interrogator, AKA General Dashing, all over the “deleted” sections in the Mehlis Report, I find it hard to believe that such a figure found time to interrogate someone like me in the midst of all these developments. Was I really considered such a major threat? Or was he in the habit of interrogating everybody? Continue reading “The General & the Heretic!”
A Conference in Venice – Part Two!
Or, A superficial account of my heretical banality
Will I be allowed to travel this time, or will they come up with some new excuse? This was the thought that kept bustling in my head all through the ride to the airport. But, surprise, surprise, things went somewhat smoothly at the Syrian end. Somewhat! Continue reading “A Conference in Venice – Part Two!”
The Ammar Abdulhamid Archive 