Charles Glass was ABC News Chief Middle East correspondent from 1983 to 1993. He wrote Tribes with Flags and Money for Old Rope (both Picador books).
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Russia and Iran are providing weapons and ammunition to Syria's President Assad, while Saudi Arabia and Qatar deliver arms through Turkey to…
After the terrible bloodletting on the battlefields, the fever began to die down. People looked war in the face with cooler, harder…
This year, Aleppo will produce no soap. The late-medieval souks in which craftsmen fashioned blocks of the famous olive oil and laurel savon…
Syrians used to tell a joke about a survey that asked "what is your opinion of eating meat?" This was during the…
In the past week, Syrian opposition groups have issued two contrasting appeals to the international community. On Saturday 28 July, the Syrian…
The Greater Journey: Americans In Paris By David McCullogh Simon & Schuster Of all the cities in all the world, Paris dominates…
The Libyans are lucky that Muammar Gaddafi did not hold out longer. If he had, there might not be much of…
My old friend Norman Finkelstein has just written a foreword to a new edition of his first-rate book on the Gaza Strip,…
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