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Syrian President Orders Study on Hated Laws

Mar 31st 2011 – 7:13AM

DAMASCUS, Syria -- Syria's president ordered Thursday that a legal committee be set up to study the possibility of abolishing the country's hated emergency laws that have been in place since 1963. The announcement comes in the wake of an extraordinary protest movement in one of Mideast's most autocratic regimes, with...

Syria -- for Now -- Holds Steady Amid Arab Uprisings

By Andrew BossoneFeb 16th 2011 – 10:06AM
Andrew Bossone

Andrew Bossone

ALEPPO, Syria -- Revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia are inspiring mass protests in Yemen, Bahrain, Jordan, Algeria, Iran and Libya, but many Syrians don't expect a similar uprising here. While admiring what Egyptian citizens were able to accomplish with their revolution this month, many Syrians cite three reasons why their...

Background on syrians

The Syrian people ( / ALA-LC: al-sha‘ab al-Sūrī) are the inhabitants and citizens of Syria and are, overall an indigenous Eastern Mediterranean people.

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