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Popular representation and democracy in Syria – end of `Alawite dictatorship’?

27/04/2016 by Kristian GIRLING / 8 comments

Introduction The Syrian parliamentary election of 13 April 2016 is demonstrative of the apparent and continuing plurality of Syrian society as manifested within the People’s Council – a parliamentary body which has often been regarded as merely a façade of legitimation for the ruling Baath Party government of President Bashar […]

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Terrorists in Syria massacre Christians, destroy cultural heritage sites

06/09/2013 by ORIENTAL REVIEW

The Middle East has become one the most dangerous regions in the world for Christians. There were more than 15 million Christians in the Arab world before popular uprisings provoked the new wave of discrimination. Syria is no exception. It has a substantial Sunni Muslim majority and large minority communities—Christians, […]

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Obama Administration Stoking Sunni Violence Against Alawites and Shi’as in Syria

05/09/2013 by ORIENTAL REVIEW

One thing U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry avoided telling the Senate Foreign Relations Committee during his plea for approval of the Syria war resolution is how the Central Intelligence Agency and militant Saudi intelligence-backed Al Qaeda elements are targeting Alawite and Shi’a communities in Syria. The Alawites, the minority […]

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