SPECIAL WEBINAR: Navigating through the Syrian Complexity December 5, 2024 @ 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM https://youtu.be/2P6ToRLt2fc?si=lrIdDZyf-WNCxQVK The transcript will be available here. The Syrian situation is not as facile as many in the United States would like to believe. Although the evolution of the rebel movement began with a few innocent children writing on the wall in the beginning of the Arab Spring of 2011, that “Assad must […]
Hazem Alghabra and the Fate of Religious and Ethnic Minorities in Syria July 30, 2025 @ 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM https://youtu.be/MsYA5P49Zs0?si=hZe8-kD9593AjuuD The transcript will be available here In December of 2024, many people were somewhat relieved that after the 50 year reign of the Alawite family of Hafez and Bashir-al-Assad, their time at the helm in Syria was coming to a close. The benefit was that manpower and weapons would no longer be […]
Is Israel’s Qualitative Military Edge Eroding? November 25, 2025 @ 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM https://youtu.be/5tRNULmL2fQ?si=kkK_u5emFKmjCgsz The transcript will be available here This week, Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman, amidst much pageantry and fanfare, visited President Donald Trump in the Oval Office. What was promised to Riyadh was two squadrons of F 35 jets, a joint civil nuclear energy program and nearly 300 tanks. Meanwhile, despite assurances […]