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Will ISIS Create al-Sham Caliphate & Liberate Palestine?
Sunday, 22 June 2014, 2:57 pm | Franklin Lamb
One need not be prescient to understand the unfolding “Jihadi Spring” is fueling the plans and perhaps destiny of ascendant Islamists in this region with the increasing help of in-country nationalists, including remnants of the Iraqi Baath Party. This, ... More >>
Will ISIS Create al-Sham Caliphate & Liberate Palestine?
Saturday, 21 June 2014, 12:20 pm | Franklin Lamb
One need not be prescient to understand the unfolding “Jihadi Spring” is fueling the plans and perhaps destiny of ascendant Islamists in this region with the increasing help of in-country nationalists, including remnants of the Iraqi Baath Party. This, ... More >>
Syrian Students Restore Our Global Cultural Heritage
Sunday, 15 June 2014, 1:48 pm | Franklin Lamb
During mid-July, 2013, the General Directorate of Antiquities and Museums (DGAM) of the Ministry of Culture in Damascus received an urgent message from citizens of Berhalia, a village about 30 kilometers West of Damascus. Berhalia is located in ... More >>
Syrian Students Restore Our Global Heritage
Saturday, 14 June 2014, 1:12 pm | Franklin Lamb
Syrian Students Restore Our Global Heritage, Tesserae by Tesserae…. Franklin Lamb The Damascus Citadel, Syria More >>
The Story of 68 Palestinian Families in Lebanon
Saturday, 7 June 2014, 12:15 pm | Franklin Lamb
Predictions about the likely course of events in this region, including occasional ones by this observer, have a way of not panning out as expected. But one prediction I offered recently to Palestinian friends in Syria—namely that Lebanon’s “media” ... More >>
Syrians Working to Preserve Jewish Cultural Heritage
Saturday, 31 May 2014, 10:51 pm | Franklin Lamb
It’s always encouraging when one comes upon some inspiring human enterprise, here in Syria or elsewhere, that refutes the worn shibboleths and clichés about how this or that group, or this or that religion, hates others and won’t cease targeting ... More >>
Syrians Working to Preserve Jewish Cultural Heritage
Saturday, 31 May 2014, 2:06 pm | Franklin Lamb
Franklin Lamb Jewish Quarter, the Old City, Damascus It’s always encouraging when one comes upon some inspiring human enterprise, here in Syria or elsewhere, that refutes the worn shibboleths and clichés about how this or that group, or this or ... More >>
Liberating Syria One Archeological site at a Time
Thursday, 29 May 2014, 5:12 pm | Franklin Lamb
Visiting archeological sites in Syria can arouse within one a rather sharp and distinct feeling of trekking along the same paths traveled a century ago by the field archaeologist, and later colonel in the British Army, T.E. Lawrence. More >>
Liberating Syria
Saturday, 24 May 2014, 1:26 pm | Franklin Lamb
Visiting archeological sites in Syria can arouse within one a rather sharp and distinct feeling of trekking along the same paths traveled a century ago by the field archaeologist, and later colonel in the British Army, T.E. Lawrence. Indeed there are a number of ... More >>
Free Our Kids! Syria’s Palestinian Refugees to Lebanon
Tuesday, 20 May 2014, 2:37 pm | Franklin Lamb
The screws continue to tighten on Palestinian and Syrian refugees fleeing for their lives and seeking safety in Lebanon. As the seemingly eternal governmental crisis in Lebanon escalates and various “warlord” veterans from the Lebanese civil war, ... More >>
Syria’s Palestinian Refugees to Lebanon
Saturday, 17 May 2014, 8:35 am | Franklin Lamb
The screws continue to tighten on Palestinian and Syrian refugees fleeing for their lives and seeking safety in Lebanon. As the seemingly eternal governmental crisis in Lebanon escalates and various “warlord” veterans from the Lebanese civil war, ... More >>
“Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently”
Saturday, 10 May 2014, 12:54 pm | Franklin Lamb
The following is a transcript of an interview conducted by the author at the National Museum of Syria, Mr. Ayham Hassan al Fakhri from Raqqa. At the time of the interview, Mr. al Fakhri was an employee of the Directorate General of Antiquities and Museums ... More >>
Can auction house victory accelerate Cultural Protections?
Saturday, 12 April 2014, 1:37 pm | Franklin Lamb
Will a Syrian victory at a posh London auction house accelerate Global Cultural Protections? Franklin Lamb More >>
The Death of Yarmouk Palestinian Camp
Saturday, 12 April 2014, 1:31 pm | Franklin Lamb
This observer does not write these words casually. And he is no huge fan of some of the intellectually lazy quick spun internet conspiracy theories, too many of which appear given to flights from reality when facts get complicated and dispositive information ... More >>
Syrian victory at London auction house & cultural protection
Thursday, 10 April 2014, 4:44 pm | Franklin Lamb
Over the past three years not many victories in Syria have been witnessed by this observer. Indeed some developments have even brought to mind Plutarch’s description of the Greek King Pyrrhus' defeat of the Roman legions some while back. More >>
Palmyrenes: Risking their lives to preserve Heritage
Sunday, 30 March 2014, 10:52 am | Franklin Lamb
This observer, seemingly ever miscalculates life’s realities. For example, he deluded himself recently into believing that Hezbollah guys were about the wildest, luckiest and fastest drivers from the archeological sites in Baalbek in Lebanon’s Bekaa ... More >>
Update on the Syrian disposal of chemical weapons
Wednesday, 26 March 2014, 10:21 am | Franklin Lamb
Recent reports from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), the accuracy of which have been conceded by the White House, but denied in Tel Aviv, have it that slightly less than half of Syria’s chemical weapons have already left ... More >>
Resisters of Sykes-Picot Land Grab Fighting in Syria
Thursday, 13 March 2014, 12:45 pm | Franklin Lamb
Every school kid here in Syria learns at an early age about the various colonial land grabs that have lopped off key parts of their ancient country, and they receive instruction about their national duty to recover this sacred territory. More >>
Return to Seyeda Zeinab—now secured and in protective hands
Saturday, 1 March 2014, 11:49 am | Franklin Lamb
Return to Seyeda (Lady) Zeinab—now secured and in protective hands Franklin Lamb Seyeda Zeinab, Syria More >>
‘Coalition of the willing’ promotes No Fly Zone in Syria
Wednesday, 26 February 2014, 11:40 am | Franklin Lamb
Since around Valentine’s Day, the dozens of parks in the city of Damascus, aided by some magnificent warm weather, have been receiving unusually large numbers of visitors. Many of these are Syrian soldiers on leave, enjoying the green space with ... More >>
