Published by The i paper (9th December, 2024) Thirteen years ago, seven boys sat around in school swigging soft drinks after a game of football while television reports […]
Arts / Film / Syria / Technology / World
Have we forgotten Syria?
Published by UnHerd (20th September, 2019) A few weeks ago, I bumped into Omran, a musician friend, who was serving salads, humous and pastries in a Lebanese cafe. […]
Syria / United States / World
Air strikes only expose the West’s weakness
Published by The i paper (16th April, 2018) One year ago the newly-elected president of the United States was watching cable news when it showed distressing images of […]
Syria / World
White Helmets hit back at Russian slurs
Published by The Mail on Sunday (15th April, 2018) Leaders of the Syrian rescue squad accused by Russia of faking footage of gassed children in the chemical weapons assault […]
Syria / World
What’s the point of gesture bombing in Syria without a wider strategy?
Published by CapX (12th April, 2018) There is one fact that everyone can agree: the war in Syria is utterly appalling, an eruption of hell that stains humanity. […]
Syria / World
The Assad files
Published by The Mail on Sunday (3rd December, 2017) The room looks harmless enough, with dull grey shelves and stacks of cardboard boxes packed to overflowing with maps […]
Syria / United States / World
A president guided by television news and emotional whims
Published by The ipaper (10th April, 2017) Even in the whirlwind world of Donald Trump, last week’s events were mind-blowing. It began with the 45th president of the […]
Syria / World
Assad’s 21st century holocaust
Published by The Mail on Sunday (12th February, 2017) Every day, the bodies were delivered to the hospital: battered beyond belief and hideously scarred from months of the […]
Syria / World
Assad fanned the flames of extremism
Published by The Independent (7th December, 2015) How quickly the narrative changes. Just two years ago, our leaders insisted we could not stand idly by after Syria’s president […]
Iraq / Syria / World
The deepening dilemma over hostages
Published by The Independent (September 15th, 2014) The fact that it was almost expected does not make it any less hideous. David Haines, a good man who went […]
Politics / Syria / World
We wring our hands as poison spreads
Published in The Mail on Sunday (August 25th, 2013) More than 100,000 Syrians lie dead. One-fifth of a 22 million population has been displaced. Yet even a few months […]