The new President of the United States Donald Trump wrapped up his first week in office by signing a controversial Executive Order on January 27th entitled Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into...
Prior to the start of the conflict, the British Syrian Society (BSS) played an instrumental role in promoting Syrian relations with the international community and specifically the UK while at the same time encouraging...
Executive Summary The British Syrian Society’s workshop at the University of Damascus focused on the ramifications of the war in Syria with the aim of providing an exchange of views on the underlying reasons...
The court system in Syria is divided into a number of jurisdictions composed of the civil courts; the criminal courts; the administrative courts; the Supreme Constitutional Court; the personal status courts, which handle family...
Syrians have made the news headlines for more than five years now for all the wrong reasons. What the media fails to mention is that they are a people who trace their identity back...
Syrians saw in the New Year with hopes that 2016 might just be the year the conflict in their country starts to draw to an end. As 2015 neared its conclusion, it appeared that...
US President Barack Obama recently signed into law the Visa Waiver Program Improvement and Terrorist Travel Prevention Act of 2015, which will have wide ramifications for the ability of certain Syrians who are dual...
The morning of December 4, 2010 is remembered as a cold but sunny one for the leading legal, financial, business and governmental personalities who made their way to the Four Seasons Hotel in Damascus...
The establishment of the United Arab Republic (UAR) represented Syria’s divorce from Lebanon. Both countries were historically parliamentary republics that adopted free-market economic…
“They even pick up the garbage in war-torn Syria!” It was very rare not to hear such grievances in Lebanon throughout the summer of 2015. Beirut, a city that used to attract tourists…