October 2008
October 2008


News
October 2008

Syrian soap banned by authorities

A Syrian TV drama about the lives of political prisoners was banned from being broadcasted on the privately owned Syrian television channel Addounia (The World), on September 4.

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News
October 2008

Assad hosts four-way peace summit

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad hosted a four-way peace summit in Damascus on September 4 with the leaders of Turkey, France and Qatar.

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News
October 2008

Syria appoints ambassador to Iraq

Syria has appointed its first ambassador to Iraq in almost 30 years following the swearing in of Nawaf al-Fares by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad at a ceremony in Damascus on September 16.

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News
October 2008

Nine-year-old boy killed at al-Tanf refugee camp

A nine-year-old Palestinian refugee from Iraq living in the al-Tanf camp in no-man’s land between the Syrian-Iraqi borders was killed by a truck on September 10.

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News
October 2008

Syria seeks extradition of Khaddam

A Syrian military court sentenced former Vice-President Abdul Halim Khaddam to life imprisonment and hard labour after finding him guilty of 13 charges, including high treason, in Damascus on August 17.

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News
October 2008

Syrian-Austrian arrested by security services

Syrian authorities arrested a Syrian-Austrian citizen at Damascus airport last month over claims he had been in touch with a Syrian dissident, a human rights group said on September 9.

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Politics
October 2008

The Long Road Back

Americans go to the polls early next month to elect a new president. But what does a new tenant in the White House mean for Syria?

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Politics
October 2008

New Kids on the Washington Block

The influence of the Zionist lobby on the American political process is well known. So where are the Arabs? Syria Today sits down with James Zogby, founder and president of the Arab American Institute, to discuss the 2008 US presidential election and the Arab American community’s growing political participation.

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Politics
October 2008

Q&A:
Hernando de Soto, economist and founder of the Institute of Liberty and Democracy

Syria Today catches up with economist and Nobel Prize finalist Hernando de Soto who has been hired by the Syrian government to look into the country’s informal economy.

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Society
October 2008

Dialing a Lifeline

Syria’s first hotline for victims of domestic violence offers women legal and psychological support and, more importantly, a place where they can speak up without fear.

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