Qifa Nabki
Syria
Special Tribunal for Lebanon Recruiting Lawyers
A reader of this blog asked me to advertise the following vacancy: The Special Tribunal for Lebanon is looking to recruit Lebanese lawyers and jurists for its National Visiting Professionals program. The positions are relatively well paid at over 1000 euros per month and include travel costs to The Hague. This would be a great … Continue reading
News & Notes (May 21, 2010)
There’s a new blog on the block, published by Mideastwire, the company that provides a daily digest of translated articles from the Middle Eastern press and runs the Beirut Exchange. I would highly recommend checking it out and subscribing to its RSS feed. Nick Noe (the co-founder of Mideastwire) has assured me that they will … Continue reading
OneMideast.org Launches
I’m pleased to announce the launch of OneMideast.org, a website that has been in development for about a year now. Here’s the skinny on it: OneMideast.org is an online discussion arena intended for raising and debating ideas central to the Arab-Israeli peace process. The project, which represents the first joint Syrian-Israeli online dialogue of its … Continue reading
Assad Chooses Iran Over Golan?
The Jerusalem Post is reporting that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has turned down an offer from Israeli President Shimon Peres, according to which Israel would return the Golan Heights to Syria in exchange for a severing of ties between Syria and its allies in the Axis of Resistance (Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas, etc.) The story in … Continue reading
SCUD-D vs. Fateh-110
The Syria-Hizbullah-SCUD crisis has generated an incredible amount of press in the last week. Assistant Secretary of State Jeffrey Feltman was dressed down yesterday before Congress for defending Obama’s engagement policy with Syria, and Foreign Policy alone has carried something like three opinion pieces about the issue just in the past couple of days. (For … Continue reading
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