I love America. I love America because it afforded me the opportunity to start a new life when my old life fell apart in a torrent of bombs and bullets. I’m the son of a Lebanese father and an American...
Google ‘Aleppo’ and you will read about an ancient city lying at the end of the Silk Road trade route that brought goods and people across the world for over a millennia. Aleppines have looked at the yellow walls of...
John Kerry, Sergei Lavrov and representatives from Iran, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Turkey meet in Vienna this week to discuss the Syria conflict. These talks were largely spurred by Russia, which one month ago launched airstrikes in support of the...
Canada’s role in the Syrian refugee crisis was thrown into sharp relief last week, when the now sadly famous photo of 3 year old Aylan Kurdi, lifeless on a Turkish beach, grabbed the world’s attention. As the story unraveled, it became...
There are more refugees in the world today than at any other time since World War Two. But the total number of refugees around the world that are admitted for resettlement to the USA is near an all time...
Can one horrible photo change refugee policies around the world? It would appear so. In just two days, the photo of young Aylan al-Kurdi has spread virally via Facebook and Twitter. But unlike so many other social media phenomenon, this one...
Journalist Liz Sly is the Beirut bureau chief for the Washington Post. She is one of my favorite and go-to-reporters for news and context about Syria and the broader middle east. We kick off discussing the current situation in Beirut,...
James Fearon is on every international relations syllabus. He is a professor at Stanford and widely known for his research into conflict and war. He uses game theory to explain the outbreak of international conflict, and along with his colleague...
Life is about to get measurably more difficult for hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees in Lebanon. Because of a funding shortfall, the World Food Program is forced to reduce by half the amount of food assistance it provides to...
