Bashar al-Assad: Not so bad after all?
Fearful of what might replace him, the West appears to be warming up to the Syrian dictator
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Michael Petrou
Senior writer Michael Petrou has covered conflict across the Middle East, Africa, and Central Asia. He is the author of ’Renegades: Canadians in the Spanish Civil War’, which was shortlisted for the Ottawa Book Award, and ’Is This Your First War? Travels Through the Post-9/11 Islamic World’, which won it. He has a DPhil from the University of Oxford.
Syria and the costs of non-intervention
Real evidence of crimes against humanity and war crimes
Harper’s Israel speech: If peace were that simple, we’d be there already
Michael Petrou on the Prime Minister’s remarks
Live-blogging Stephen Harper’s Israeli Knesset address
’Every time Harper says Canada is Israel’s best friend, I’ll take a slug,’ says Michael Petrou
Immoral and bullheaded, Sharon changed for the better
There are no easy lessons to take from Sharon’s life
The women in Iran we never see
Photographer captures the double lives of Tehran women
A refugee camp and a game park hotel: Bev Oda goes to Africa
The former minister charged taxpayers for hefty rebooking fees
In the Middle East, an ancient war is new again
A bitter, violent clash between Islam’s two major sects is dividing and, increasingly, defining the region
Is Syria past the point of repair?
Why putting it back together may prove impossible
Newsmakers of 2013: Bashar al-Assad marches on in Syria
Saddam and Gadhafi are dead. Egypt’s Mubarak is deposed. Yet Syria’s blood-soaked tyrant remains.