The policy of patching up laws, amending legislation, and delving into the labyrinth of executive regulations to modify them is futile. What is required is surgical, comprehensive excision. All laws enacted by the former defunct regime must be completely eradicated. We must build a new legal...

Banknote is not merely neutral paper as it may appear on the surface, nor is it simply an exchange tool whose value is measured solely by what it can buy in the market. Rather, at one of its deepest levels, it is a silent discourse of the state—a complex message directed inward before...

Syrian demography is not a marginal footnote in some report by an observatory that has professionalized falsehood, nor is it some ignorant collection of superstitions from books of illogic. Neither is this demography a map to be dissected with a scalpel according to the whims of weaponry and...

The phenomenon of the Israeli-backed Druze Hijri militias has transcended the local framework within which it was long categorized. What we are witnessing now is not merely the proliferation of weapons outside state control, but a qualitative shift towards the formation of an organized criminal...