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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation 28/11/2014
On 28 November, the Russian President’s Special Representative for the Middle East and Africa, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Mikhail Bogdanov met with Randa Kassis, Chairman of the Syrian opposition Movement for a Pluralistic Society, who is visiting Moscow. Continue reading
Arabsaga 07/11/2013
The leading Saudi daily Asharq Alawsat today suggests in its front page lead that the Americans and Russians are working hand in hand to put together a pliant Syrian opposition to negotiate with President Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Geneva. Continue reading
As the Obama administration seeks allies for its as-yet lonely campaign to inflict punitive missile strikes on Syria, those plans are confronting substantial distrust and resistance from citizens around the globe. Continue reading
France 24 20/05/2013
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has lost control of northern and southern Syria and is focused on a strategic corridor linking the Mediterranean coast to Damascus. Will this accelerate the fragmentation of Syria?
More than two years after the conflict began, Syria today is totally transformed. While experts discuss the threat of partition, on the ground, Syria is effectively a divided country. Continue reading
Huffington post 30/11/2012
BEIRUT — BEIRUT – It’s at night that worries over her children hit the matriarch of the Khayyat family hardest, tormenting her as she tries to sleep. Continue reading
Radical Islam 06/08/2012
Syrian dictator Bashar Assad is on his way out and the best he can hope for is to create an Allawite mini-state for his loyalists. Al-Qaeda smells blood in the water and wants a piece of the pie once Assad falls. The Muslim Brotherhood, like Al-Qaeda, envisions an Islamic State of Syria. Some of the secular rebels determined to overthrow Assad are worried, warning that the Islamists are pulling the rug from under their feet. Continue reading
France 24 18/09/2011
The coalition is made up of Muslim, Christian, Arab and Kurd activists who are “united by the human and universal values of secularism and democracy”, spokesperson Randa Kassis told FRANCE 24 on Sunday. “We are all against totalitarianism in any form, and that includes Islamist rule,” she said. Continue reading
Reuters 16/09/2011
France welcomed the formation of a Syrian National Council by activists working to bring down President Bashar al Assad, the foreign ministry said on Friday, noting French officials met this week in Paris with Syrian opposition members. Continue reading
28/04/2010
Kirkuk, April 28 (AKnews) – “A lot of my paintings express my unconciouns and the
paintings of women in large wide unlimited areas represent me the most,”Writer and
Fine Artist Randa Kassis said in the interview by the correspondent of the Independent
National News Agency of Kurdistan (AKnews) “Sardar Zanganah”, adding that she
“succeeded to some extent, where “the Hidden Nakedness” paiting style is registered
to my name, but I moved away from drawing gradually where I recently adopted a
different tool to express the ideas that give me sleepless nights through the pen”. Continue reading
Oasis 25/02/2010
In an article titled The many faces behind the veil, The Independent looked at the issue through the eyes of a number of Muslim women from different social and cultural backgrounds, some in favour, others against the full veil. The outcome is a colourful and varied picture of Muslim women, but one that fails to address the deeper essence of the French debate, which is, “Whether or not women should be fined for wearing a veil in public or in the streets? Is such a veil a religious symbol or not? Why does France appear to fear something that has religious resonance? Ultimately, The Independent appears to back the idea that the burqa is more than a symbol of women’s submission, that it might actually be a liberating way to express one’s own identity. Continue reading