Nonviolent Approach
Category: Nonviolence
Introducing Nobel Prize Laureate Tawakkul Karman
On October 22, I had the pleasure of introducing Nobel Prize Laureate in an event organized by the Yemeni community in New York. Here is a video of my introduction (Arabic), and few photos:
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U.N.: Syria death toll tops 3,000
“What we have unfolding in Syria now is a two-tiered revolution: an armed insurrection and nonviolent protest movement, and the champions of both are morally justified in their position and they need our support,” said Ammar Abdulhamid, a U.S.-based exiled Syrian dissident. He said external military intervention, including logistical and material support to the defectors, is a must to avoid a return to the status-quo. “Yes, we should fear civil war, we should fear the bloodshed resulting from militaristic adventurism, but we should fear a return to the status quo even more,” he wrote in his blog Friday.
Should Obama call for Syria’s Assad to go?
The Christian Science Monitor wonders: “Should Obama call for Syria’s Assad to go? And would it matter?“
…according to some experts, a call from the White House for Assad to go would hasten the disintegration of his government. In this view, Syrian elites view current US sanctions as an attempt to get Syria to distance itself from Iran as much as a tool intended to end their internal crackdown. Continue reading “Should Obama call for Syria’s Assad to go?”
The Ammar Abdulhamid Archive 