Sunday Times reporter Marie Colvin, killed in Syria on Wednesday reminds us all of the importance of front line reporting (1) along with a French photographer, Remi Ochlik and, on the previous day a Syrian citizen journalist Rami Al-Sayed (2)
‘Phone Calls to Hell’: Syria’s citizen journalists, including Rami Al-Sayed
‘Damascus Launching the Syrian Journalists Association after Decades of Oppression’
‘Syrian Security Forces Target Doctors’, in The Guardian
‘Red Cross tries to broker Syria truce as tanks move on Homs’
‘Officials killed in Syria’s Idlib Province’, report by Al-Jazeera English
‘Syria: Razan Ghazzawi and female colleagues freed’, in Global Voices update
‘Syria: my enemy’s enemy is not my friend’, a spat within the UK Left emerges on Syria
‘Syria disintegrating under crippling sanctions’: Faisal al-Qudsi interviewed by the BBC
‘Syrian forces fire on funeral procession’ in The Wall Street Journal (1) and see footage here from Mezze (2)
‘China backs Syria’s referendum, calls for end of violence by all sides’
Wallerstein on the ‘Syrian impasse’
Live streams from Homs via Bambuser are now being blocked by the Syrian government
‘UN Syria resolution which countries voted no’
‘Syrian rebel refugees in Jordan nurse wounds and plan a fightback’, in The National newspaper
‘American reporter Anthony Shadid dies in Syria’ (1); read his NYT obituary here (2)
Fears for Damascus activists arrested says Amnesty
UN Resolution on Syria, 16 February (1), and see the digital boards at the UN vote here (2)
If you want, you can now access all CNN’s Syria coverage from one site
‘Syrian refugees get help across the border’ report from Turkey in Spiegel online
‘Why Israel should intervene in Syria’: had to include this gem. Nathan, perhaps stick to fiction?
‘Secretary General castigates Syria ahead of General Assembly vote’, in the New York Times
‘Syria blocks texts with Dublin made gear’ in Bloomberg
Arabic Language Articles:
معارض سوري: كيف يمكن لشعب أن يقبل الحوار والمسدس مصوَّب نحو رأسه
ملاحظات على مشروع الدستور السوري الجديد
1/2 مسارات غير مطروقة: التأمل في تبعات الديناميكيات السورية
2/2 مسارات غير مطروقة: التأمل في تبعات الديناميكيات السورية
إستفتاء الأحد في سوريا: أول مرة بلا %99.98
عن الدين والدولة والدستور السوري الجديد… بقلم علي المير ملحم
دستور سوري مدني أم «عثملّي» ديني؟
بيــن مؤشــرات الركــود و«المناعــة» الاقتصاديــة
المقدم خالد الحمود: نرفض عسكرة المدنيين ونطالب بتسليح الجيش الحر
ملامح من الوضع الراهن للأزمة السورية
تمرْكُس الظواهري وتأسْلُم غيفارا!
علي فرزات: كي تكون حراً …يجب أن يكون الآخر حراً
الجمعية العامة تؤكد اليوم «عزلة» سورية
Social Media/Video clips
The Times front cover for Wednesday 22 February “Syria slays its children” on its Facebook site
Very witty tweets from https://twitter.com/#!/SameralAtrush in the last week, especially commentary on Nasrallah’s speech (Thursday 16 March) and insight into family arguments on Syria:
After prolonged negotiations with my Baathist uncle we have agreed that there is someone shelling Homs. Now negotiating over who is shelling (14 Feb)
See Malek Jandali’s Qashoush Freedom Symphony on YouTube tweeted by @JKhashoggi
Art and the politics of foreign powers collide in this video
Recent Jadaliyya Articles on Syria
الاستفتاء على الدستور السوري: النظام الفردي كما هو
حين يكون الكوكب بأسره ضد الثورة
The Real Me and the Hypothetical Syrian Revolution - Part 1
Syria's Islamic Movement and the Current Uprising: Political Acquiescence, Quietism, and Dissent
Our Friend Anthony Shadid's Stories
Anthony Shadid Is No Longer with Us
Syria: Razan Ghazzawi Arrested...Again
كامل نص الدستور السوري الجديد الذي تسلمه بشار الأسد
Is It Time to Intervene in Syria? NPR Discussion with Bassam Haddad and Others
Sowing the Seeds of Dissent: Economic Grievances and the Syrian Social Contract’s Unraveling