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Author: Maha El Dahan

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Bashar al-Assad election posters in Damascus, May 2021 (photo: AFP/Getty Images/Louai Beshara)

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Arabs ease Assad's isolation as U.S. looks elsewhere

While Bashar al-Assad is still shunned by the West, which blames him for a decade of brutal war in Syria, a shift is under way in the Middle East, where Arab allies of the United States are bringing him in from the cold by reviving economic and diplomatic ties. By Maha El DahanMore

Loyalty and legitimacy: in Syria Bashar al-Assad's staging of the presidential electionNorthern Syria's humanitarian disaster: Syria's IDPs – waiting for death in IdlibSyria 10 years on: Bashar al-Assad’s Pyrrhic victory and the arrogance of power Saudi Arabia, Iran, Turkey and Egypt: A new dawn for diplomacy in the Middle East?Reconciliation between Saudi Arabia and Qatar: A turning point for the whole Middle East?
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    What is Palestinian literature exactly?

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    "One day we will be free"

  3. Protests in Iran

    Spiralling food prices fuel unrest

  4. Public opinion in Turkey

    Dreaming of a greater republic

  5. Ukraine and the West's selective values

    Less 'clash of civilisations', more rift

  6. Jewish pilgrimage to Tunisia

    Faith meets politics on Djerba

  1. Female scholars in Islam

    Unsung guardians of the 'true' tradition

  2. Adania Shibli's "Minor Detail"

    What is Palestinian literature exactly?

  3. Western Sahara conflict

    "One day we will be free"

  4. Prostitution in the Islamic Republic of Iran

    Open-minded, loving... and desperate

  5. Public opinion in Turkey

    Dreaming of a greater republic

  6. Menstruation in Pakistan

    What every girl should know

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  • Iran Oscar winner Asghar Farhadi rejects plagiarism claims at Cannes

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