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May 29, 2014
Adam Heffez, Noam Raydan
Syria's Crazy Campaign to Lure Tourists
What civil war? The Ministry of Tourism thinks you'll enjoy these new beachside cafes
August 26, 2013
Fred Hof
Is Assad Goading Obama?
The new Syrian atrocities may have been a miscalculation. But America's rhetoric encouraged them.
May 4, 2013
Marc Tracy
An Israeli Strike, An American Message
The bombing of weapons in Syria has as much to do with Iran
December 18, 2012
Graeme Wood
Dear Syria, Save Damascus' Old City
November 29, 2012
Michael Kazin
Hallelujah! The Conservative Catholic Hierarchy Taps an American Anarchist for Sainthood
October 5, 2012
Fouad Ajami
How Sectarianism Blinds the Shia to the Horrors of Syria
September 14, 2012
Leon Wieseltier
Syria Burns on Obama's Back Burner
September 14, 2012
Paul Berman
Baathism: An Obituary
August 30, 2012
Sarah Birke, Katie Paul
Inside Syria’s Fracturing Rebellion
July 29, 2012
Jonathan Schanzer
The Fate of Syria is in the Hands of … Palestinians?
April 30, 2012
Radwan Ziadeh
The Making of a Syrian Dissident: A Personal Journey
March 31, 2012
David Schenker
The Free Syrian Army vs. the Syrian National Council—Which Should We Support?
March 29, 2012
James Harkin
The Stalled Revolution
March 15, 2012
Nick Robins-Early
Meet the Cynical Western Companies Helping the Syrian Regime
February 29, 2012
Martin Peretz
Friends of Syria: Obama, Clinton, the Saudi King, All Pusillanimous, One Worse Than the Other
February 16, 2012
Martin Peretz
Obama’s ‘Hawkish’ Foreign Policy? If Only It Were So.
February 10, 2012
Fouad Ajami
The Man of the Sword: Two Poems by Nizar Qabbani
February 9, 2012
Michael Weiss
Break the Stalemate! A Blueprint For a Military Intervention in Syria
February 9, 2012
Daniel W. Drezner
It’s Time to Arm the Syrian Opposition
February 7, 2012
Fouad Ajami
The Honor of Aleppo

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