There are protests taking place throughout Syria almost daily, while the city of Hama is reported to be de facto without so much as a traffic policeman. As the Syrian dissident in exile, Ammar Abdulhamid, said, the Syrian revolution is not stillborn – it is a healthy baby that may form the “foundation of a future Syria”.
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Protests Will Only Grow, Democracy Activist Predicts
Ammar Abdulhamid, a Syrian living in exile in the United States who writes about the democracy movement there and has become an informal spokesman for those who oppose the Assad regime, told All Things Considered host Robert Siegel today that the Syrian president and those in his regime must step down because today’s crackdown and killings show that they are not serious about any of the concessions they have offered in recent days.
And Abdulhamid predicted that the protests will only continue to grow as more Syrians turn against the regime because of its violent response to the protesters’ demands. Continue reading “Protests Will Only Grow, Democracy Activist Predicts”
Ammar Abdulhamid and Joshua Landis in a debate on Bloggingheads.tv
Joshua Landis (University of Oklahoma, Syria Comment) and Ammar Abdulhamid (Tharwa Foundation,Syrian Revolution Digest) speak about:
- The state of the revolution in Syria 4:58
- Without Bashar al-Assad, will Iraq-style sectarianism reign? 7:50
- Ammar: The opposition is refusing to fall into the trap of violence 7:42
- Best and worst case scenarios for the end of the regime 7:18
- If Assad goes, who will run the country? 7:36
- The future of Syria’s relationship with Iran and Israel 8:17
Syria is not ready for an uprising
The groundwork for Egypt and Tunisia’s days of rage took years. In isolated Syria, there is much grassroots work to be done.
Ammar Abdulhamid, guardian.co.uk, Monday 7 February 2011 11.00 GMT.
A “day of rage” called for by Syrian opposition members living abroad and scheduled for last Friday and Saturday came and went: the only mass presence detected on the streets of major cities in Syria was that of security forces. Continue reading “Syria is not ready for an uprising”
The Ammar Abdulhamid Archive 