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Syrian-American law student
Syrian-American law student who travels back to Syria frequently
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Kenan Rahmani
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Violence in Aleppo reaches new level of horror The latest assault on Aleppo has the UN Secretary General, the US and other Western Nations accusing Russia and the Syrian government of committing war crimes. Kenan Rahmani is a Syrian-American law student who's often visited Damascus. In April of this year, he joined us to talk about the future of Syria and he was mostly optimistic about the rebel-held areas he had visited then. Rahmani joins us again today, as the latest bombardment of Aleppo has the UN Secretary General, the US and other western countries accusing Syria and Russia of war crime.
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Does the "Arab Spring" Have a Future After All? It's been five years since popular uprisings toppled dictators in Egypt and other Arab countries. Except in Tunisia, Democracy has not taken hold. Egypt's new military regime may be worse than the old one; Libya is in chaos; millions of Syrians are fleeing civil war. In 2011, diverse groups were able to unify after years of repression, only to be divided again by their different interests and the need for order. But revolutions take time. We talk with authors of two new books saying it's premature to declare that the "Arab Spring" was a failure.
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Does the "Arab Spring" Have a Future After All? It's been five years since popular uprisings toppled dictators in Egypt and other Arab countries. Except in Tunisia, Democracy has not taken hold. Egypt's new military regime may be worse than the old one; Libya is in chaos; millions of Syrians are fleeing civil war. In 2011, diverse groups were able to unify after years of repression, only to be divided again by their different interests and the need for order. But revolutions take time. We talk with authors of two new books saying it's premature to declare that the "Arab Spring" was a failure.
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Trump plays scolder-in-chief with NATO allies At the opening of NATO’s dramatic new headquarters in Brussels today, President Trump acknowledged that Article 5 — promising that “an attack on one nation is an attack on all” -- has only been invoked one time: in the aftermath of September 11. But the President failed to provide what 27 other Alliance members have been waiting for: a re-commitment by America’s new leader to Article 5. Instead, they got a scolding.