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7-10-16
Why It’s Been So Effective to Ridicule Syria’s Bashar al-Assad as a Pathetic Finger Puppet
by Marwan M. Kraidy
The essential medium of political expression in the Arab Spring was not cell phone texting or Twitter but something more fundamental: the human body.
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SOURCE: Informed Comment
9-28-15
Syria: Is Bashar al-Assad winning the Diplomatic War? Rebels Fret
by Juan Cole
The Syrian rebels are extremely upset and worried that the world may abandon them.
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