Aleppo Governorate

Lebanese daily confirms Jarrah trained by Mossad

The Lebanese Army Intelligence has continued investigations into the background and activities of Ali and Youssef Jarrah, two Lebanese siblings who were arrested in the Bekaa on charges of spying for Israel earlier this month....

The Rise and Fall of the Arab Middle Class in the Middle East

Monthly Review, VA Nov 15 2008 The Rise and Fall of the Arab Middle Class in the Middle East: Between Modernization, Nationalism, and Revolution by Eyal Zisser Keith David Watenpaugh. Among the dignitaries who stayed at the...

National Arab American Medical Association (NAAMA) to hold first international convention in Dubai

The National Arab American Medical Association (NAAMA) will hold its first ever international convention in Dubai in December 2008, supported by local partners including Dubai Health Care City, Shaikh Khalifa Medical City,...

Utopia in the desert

Two years ago, the investment fund of the oil-soaked city of Abu Dhabi handed Sultan Al Jaber $4 billion and a 2.5-square-mile parcel of desert. Jaber, a petroleum engineer, had proposed that with all of its wealth from selling...

Fake ‘Convert’ Scholar - Johann Ludwig Burckhardt [Saifuddins Blog Picks]

Johann Ludwig Burckhardt fooled Muslims across the lands in his knowledge of the Arabic language and Islamic sciences. He assumed the identity of “Shaikh Ibrahim ibn Abdullah” and traveled across Middle East, even entering...

Archeological Expeditions in Aleppo Conclude Excavations

Aleppo, (SANA) – The archeological expeditions working in Aleppo Governorate, north Syria, concluded their excavations for the second half of 2008, uncovering a number of significant finds. Director of the Archeological...

Syrian Christians say Israeli-Palestinian peace must be Obama priority

Christian leaders in Syria say the victor of the 2008 US presidential election will have to focus on renewing peace efforts in the Middle East, with the priority being settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian standoff.

Lost skills revived

THE fire spread quickly. It was the morning of August 21, 1969, and a young Australian sheep shearer, Dennis Michael Rohan, left the al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. He was in a hurry. Behind him, the mosque was burning, the flames...

The Rescuer by Haviv Rettig

The amazing true story of how one woman helped save the Jews of Syria. In 1972, Toronto high school music teacher Judy Feld Carr came across a news article in The Jerusalem Post that told of the tragic deaths of 12 young Syrian...

Syrians stare terror in the face

Syrians have been rocked by revelations that several members of the Lebanon-based terror group that carried out a deadly suicide attack in Damascus in September were Syrians. This is testimony to just how vulnerable Syria has...

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