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Bookmark or Share- Understanding Asad - Middle East ForumAsad’s cramped diplomatic style--using passive constructions, abstractions, and indirectness in his speech - conveys deep reluctance to come to terms with Israel. It may also indicate an intent not to let go of the rejectionist option. Asad has developed the double game, a common pattern of Middle Eastern politics, into a fine art.
- Would an Islamist Syria be Worse than a Weak Assad?The choice policymakers must consider is not a strong Assad versus a pluralistic, democratic opposition, or a strong Assad versus a weak Islamist regime; rather, it is a weak Assad ensconced in Damascus or Alawite strongholds along the Mediterranean coast versus an increasingly strong, radical Sunni regime with the worldview of Hamas, if not the Islamic State, but with the full and open ...
- Asad Noor: Why Western Islamists Want to Murder MeAsad Noor, human rights activist, former Muslim, and counter-Islamist fled his native Bangladesh due to death threats for his statements about the Quran and Muhammad, the prophet of Islam. Now in hiding, Noor spoke to a September 8th Middle East Forum
- Hafiz al-Asad Discovers Islam - Middle East ForumHafiz al-Asad’s rise to power in November 1970 brought about a new era, as he softened his predecessors’ anti-Islamic tone. Although himself an ‘Alawi, Asad prayed in Sunni mosques, went on the pilgrimage to Mecca, and had the ‘Alawi religion declared a legitimate branch of Shi’i Islam.
- On the Road: In Asad's Damascus - Middle East ForumAn enormous bronze statue of Asad--ten times larger than life--looms over the city of Hama, serving as a palpable reminder of his brutal 1982 suppression of Islamic agitation there, which left some twenty-five thousand dead. His huge eyes piercing, his worry beads in hand, Asad peers down on the masses, smiling his crooked smile.
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