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Category: Regional & International Politics
Syrian Reform Activist Calls Assad Ouster Inevitable
During a visit to Washington, DC, Ammar Abdulhamid tells VOA protesters have broken the barrier of fear and that President Assad’s removal is only a matter of time.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s Corleone Correlations
After weeks of appearing immune to Arab world protests, Syria faces escalating unrest as soldiers opened fire on demonstrators. Jeffrey Brown discusses the protests with former U.S. Ambassador to Syria Theodore Kattouf and democracy activist and blogger Ammar Abdulhamid, who was exiled in 2005. Continue reading “Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s Corleone Correlations”
Protests in Egypt continue despite government shut down of Internet
The ramifications outside of Egypt are troubling as activists and journalists struggled to understand the situation there, as Ammar Abdulhamid, a Syrian dissident and human rights activist in the United States, told Deutsche Welle.
“The Internet, and the Tunisian precedent made the world take notice of events in Egypt from day one, whereas it took months for them to notice the importance of developments in Tunisia, but even there, the Internet played a crucial factor,” he said. Continue reading “Protests in Egypt continue despite government shut down of Internet”
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