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This "allowed Bashar to be seen as someone on the right side of a true 'hot button' issue for most ordinary Syrians," writes Flynt Leverett in his book, Inheriting Syria - Bashar's Trial by Fire. The Syrian constitution had to be amended to allow ...

Sascha Meinrath, director of the New America Foundation's Open Technology Initiative, told Al Jazeera that it is "quite feasible" to access a mobile operating centre remotely, thus able to install backdoors, install software to monitor or manipulate ...

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA - The bursting to life of the Occupy Wall Street movement is the most hopeful development in American politics since Barack Obama was elected president three years ago this month. Obama's election has turned out to be largely a false hope. But that false hope might still be redeemed - and the president motivated to become the reformer he once pledged to be - if the Occupy movement grows into the kind of massive, broad-based, relentless movement no president can afford to ignore.

“The organisation's leaders have worked outside of Syria for over 20 years, it is hard to accurately assess the current level of support within Syria,” Randa Slim, a research fellow at the New America Foundation and scholar at the Middle East Institute ...

Financial journalist Kat Aaron will be in the studio to discuss the state of the global economy. Joining the show via Skype are Brazilian financial journalist Patricia Campos Mello and Peter Schiff, president of Euro Pacific Capital and host of the ...

Deportation was "talked about throughout the deal and that is one of the areas where Hamas has shown greater flexibility," Daniel Levy, a senior analyst at the New America Foundation and former advisor to Israeli cabinet ministers, told Al Jazeera. ...

While DDoS attacks have been likened by some, such as Evgeny Morozov, to sit-ins, and by others, to lockdowns, a defacement is not unlike its real life equivalent: it requires some clean-up, but is nonetheless a temporary measure designed to draw ...

Inside Story discusses with Shlomo Ben Ami, former Israeli foreign minister; Daniel Levy, senior research fellow, American Strategy Program; Zalman Shoval, Israeli politician and diplomat and Dimitri Dilyani, member of the Revolutionary Council of ...

Inside Story discusses with Shlomo Ben Ami, former Israeli foreign minister; Daniel Levy, senior research fellow, American Strategy Program; Zalman Shoval, Israeli politician and diplomat and Dimitri Dilyani, member of the Revolutionary Council of ...

This action undertaken by the Palestinian Liberation Organisation at the UN is not taken in the context of strategy, but because it has stumbled into it and is trying to reclaim some political ground. I think the bid is taking place in a strategic vacuum, and therefore my analysis of what might happen at the UN is based on this being a consequence of political frustration and anxiety, rather than intentionality.