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☆ Mohammad Faris: ‘Armstrong of the Arab World’ and Syria’s first astronaut dies in exile
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-21 | by ( Eyad Kourdi | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

In 1987, Faris, a pilot in the Syrian Air Force, spent eight days in space with the Soviet Union’s Interkosmos spaceflight program. Faris flew with a Soviet crew to Mir space station becoming the first and only Syrian astronaut and second Arab to make it to space. Upon his return to Syria, Faris was celebrated as a national hero by tens of thousands of Syrians. Faris decided in 2012 to defect and publicly oppose the Syrian regime, putting his family and himself in life-threatening danger. In 2020, Faris was granted Turkish citizenship, as reported by the Turkish state broadcaster TRT.

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☆ Syrians Tear Down Poster of Assad in Sweida as Protests Swell
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-08 | by ( Sept. | At A.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +1 min

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Demonstrators in the southern Syrian city of Sweida tore down a portrait of President Bashar al-Assad on Friday as anti-government protests that began three weeks ago swelled with crowds coming in from surrounding villages. Sweida is capital of a province of the same name that is home to most of Syria's minority Druze sect. The city remained in government hands throughout the civil war and was largely spared the violence seen elsewhere. In Sweida city, hundreds gathered in Karama Square on Friday as the protests, carrying the multi-coloured Druze flag. Residents of other government-held parts of Syria - where restrictions are tighter - have made more discrete gestures of protest to avoid detection by government forces.

Persons: Bashar al, Assad, Hey Bashar, Bashar's, Hafez al, Maya Gebeily, Frances Kerry Organizations: Farmers ' Union Locations: BEIRUT, Syrian, Sweida, Syria

☆ Opinion: The Golda Meir movie starring Helen Mirren fails the test of history
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-26 | by ( Hilary Krieger | Opinion Noah Berlatsky | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

CNN —In Guy Nattiv’s new feature film “Golda,” which arrived in theaters Friday, Helen Mirren plays Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir during the crisis of the 1973 Yom Kippur War. Accordingly, the movie is inevitably fodder for an ongoing discussion about whether non-Jewish performers should play Jewish roles. They made significant advances, threatening all of Israel, until Israel ultimately turned the tide to retain the land it had acquired in 1967. Join us on Twitter and FacebookInstead, the point is that the Yom Kippur War was a complicated conflict for territory and geopolitical advantage, abetted by prejudice and intransigence on every side. White non-Jewish actors can be cast as White Jewish characters because White Jewish people (like White Irish people or White Italian people) are, at the moment, generally perceived and accepted as White.

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☆ Syria's Assad boosted by return to Arab fold
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-08 | by ( Tom Perry | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +7 min

[1/3] Syria's President Bashar al-Assad addresses the new members of parliament in Damascus, Syria in this handout released by SANA on August 12, 2020. Now, as Arab states bring him back into the fold, the logic appears to have worked for him once again. In exchange for ending Syria's isolation, Arab states want action, notably towards ending trafficking of the highly-addictive and lucrative amphetamine captagon across Syria's borders towards the Gulf. The threat of a U.S. missile strike was averted when Moscow brokered a deal for Syria's chemical weapons to be destroyed by the following year. But while Assad remained a pariah to the West, Arab states which once backed his opponents began opening doors to him.

☆ Jordan bans TikTok claiming that app was 'inciting violence and disorder' after a police officer was killed in protests over high fuel prices
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-17 | by ( Katie Balevic | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Jordan issued a "temporary ban" on TikTok after videos of protests and unrest were shared, per the Associated Press. A high-ranking police officer in the Jordan city of Maan was killed amid protests last week, per the AP. Truck drivers are striking and protesting high fuel prices across the country and region, the AP reported. The announcement on Friday came after a high-ranking police officer was killed amid protests over high fuel prices in the city of Maan. The government did not say how long the "temporary ban" on TikTok would last, according to the AP.

☆ Bashar al-Assad, declarat câștigător al alegerilor prezidențiale din Siria. Occidentul și opoziția au numit scrutinul „o farsă”
▼ + stars: | 2021-05-28 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +2 min

Bashar al-Assad a fost declarat câștigătorul alegerilor prezidențiale din Siria, în cadrul unui scrutin considerat „o farsă” de criticii săi. În ziua votului, dictatorul sirian a declarat că opinia Occidentului „nu valorează nimic”. Ulterior, președintele parlamentului sirian, Hammouda Sabbagh a anunțat că Assad a câștigat alegerile cu 95,1% dintre voturi, la o prezență de 78,6%. Este o decizie a guvernului, ajutat de Rusia și Iran, pentru a ucide procesul politic. Pe parcursul „domniei” sale, însă, Siria a fost sfâșiată de un război civil care continuă deja de zece ani, după ce Assad a reprimat cu violență proteste pro-democrație în martie 2011.

Persons: Bashar, Assad, Miniștrii, Sabbagh, Abdullah Saloum Abdullah, Mahmoud Ahmed Organizations: BBC, Organizației Națiunilor Unite Locations: Siria, Statele, Franța, Germania, Italia, UK, SUA, Mahmoud Ahmed Mari, Idlib, Rusia, Iran

☆ Bashar al-Assad, declarat câștigător al alegerilor din Siria; Occidentul și opoziția au numit alegerile „o farsă”
▼ + stars: | 2021-05-28 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +2 min

Sursa foto: SANABashar al-Assad, declarat câștigător al alegerilor din Siria; Occidentul și opoziția au numit alegerile „o farsă”Bashar al-Assad a fost declarat câștigătorul alegerilor prezidențiale din Siria, în cadrul unui scrutin considerat „o farsă” de criticii săi. În ziua votului, dictatorul sirian a declarat că opinia Occidentului „nu valorează nimic”. Opoziția siriană din exil a numit scrutinul „o farsă”. Este o decizie a guvernului, ajutat de Rusia și Iran, pentru a ucide procesul politic. Pe parcursul „domniei” sale, însă, Siria a fost sfâșiată de un război civil care continuă deja de zece ani, după ce Assad a reprimat cu violență proteste pro-democrație în martie 2011.

Persons: Assad, Miniștrii, Sabbagh, Abdullah Saloum Abdullah, Mahmoud Ahmed Organizations: Organizației Națiunilor Unite Locations: Siria, Statele, Franța, Germania, Italia, UK, SUA, Mahmoud Ahmed Mari, Idlib, Rusia, Iran

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