That’s right, this blog is on hiatus at the moment. There is a bank of emotional and intellectual ammunition that has been spent and I don’t...

I'm so angry with the lies, with the confusion and deceit that surrounds everything about Syria. People who have no business talking abo...

Dusk... Red earth... The sound of a water pump in the distance... A dog barking... A melodious call to prayer echoes across the valley.....

I had a vivid memory come to mind the other day. It was of a winter night, with a stove in a house in Damascus covered in chestnuts and oran...

There is something that is happening right now, something that most people aren't talking about, either because they haven't noticed...

There are a lot of things that rile me about Bashar al Assad, but none more than his manner when speaking to members of the press. In a rece...

The world is so big, and yet these days it seems so small. Everywhere you go you need papers. Little bits of information that say where you ...