Levantine Dreamhouse

Thoughts on politics, religion and culture from a Levantine straddling two worlds but feeling comfortable in neither.

Sunday, August 25, 2013

Hope Amid the Noxious Fumes

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Physically exhausted and emotionally drained, yet he musters the inner strength, to make a statement for posterity. In a strai...
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Wednesday, June 05, 2013

Syria and the Arab Left's Moral Dissonance

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Suddenly, the voice of the Arab Left is alive again, enthusiastically supporting a popular uprising against a Middle East strongman.  They ...
Friday, May 31, 2013

Stand With the People of Syria: Now More than Ever

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Wednesday, March 06, 2013

Ordinary Lives Disrupted by War

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Here is a compelling series of photographs by Brian Sokol for UNHCR  published in Aljazeera. Images from Syria are more often than not,...
Thursday, February 28, 2013

Translation: Moaz Al Khatib's Press Conference 2/28/2013

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Moaz Al Khatib represents me. The more I listen to him to more I like the man. He has the right mix of passion, compassion, moral indigna...
Sunday, January 06, 2013

Parsing Bashar Assad's Speech

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Once again, Bashar's speech, at a time when his policies have taken Syria to the brink of collapse, is completely devoid of realist...
Saturday, December 29, 2012

A Political Solution IS Better than Hell

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I sympathize with a traumatized and cynical Syrian public's dismissal of Lakdhar Brahimi's initiative as too little, too late. ...
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Rabi Tawil (AKA Abu Kareem)
New York, United States
As physicians, we are taught to "first, do no harm". And so, in life, I like the middle road, where reason prevails over the harm that is the inevitable result of ignorance, prejudice and intolerance.
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