’We have some concerns with the way you’ve spun the facts:’ Senator Don Meredith’s office responds
Yesterday I received the following email from Kevin Bourne, “communications and policy adviser” for Senator Don...
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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.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s summer of defections
Pillars have been crumbling steadily under Syrian President Bashar al-Assad
Tory senator joins Iranian embassy shindig
Don Meredith, apparently, didn’t see any contradictions with his party’s hard line on Iran
Fund Syria’s rebels — but be honest about it
Canada probably wants to help the insurgency but is afraid to say so openly
It’s lonely at the top for Bashar al-Assad
The defection of Assad’s prime minister is more than just a tactical problem for Syria’s dictator
Iran seeks to open religious school in Montreal
An Iranian religious education organization under the ultimate supervision of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is...
Will too much compromise split Britain’s coalition government?
Two years in, relations between Britain’s coalition partners Cameron and Clegg hit an all-time low
Tehran’s very fowl summer
A countrywide chicken shortage sparks protests in Iran as sanctions begin to bite.
Canada gives $2 million to group collecting for the charitable alma mater of Omar Khadr’s dad
Human Concern International says it’s doing everything right now
REVIEW: The Dictator’s Learning Curve: Inside the Global Battle for Democracy
Book by William J. Dobson