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micklethwait

What the Garbageman Knows - 1 views

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egypt zabaleen trash Cairo

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  • micklethwait on 08 Oct 14
     
    Remember what I said about the trash collectors (zabaleen) in Cairo?
agomez117

The Voice of Art: Street Art - 1 views

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    Every inner city area has its fair share of buildings tattooed with layers of colorful graffiti and gang symbols. Given the stigma attached to graffiti, one would not expect to find true art on cracking walls, between trash cans, and on street signs. However, a more advanced form of graffiti-street art-conveys a deeper expression of the artist.
alarsso

Syria after Assad: Heading toward a Hard Fall? - The Washington Institute for Near East Policy - 0 views

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syria post-assad heading institute outcome

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  • To a certain extent, the nature of the transition will be i
  • nfluenced by how the Assad regime leaves the scene.
  • forces retain their cohesion
  • ...23 more annotations...
  • control
  • whether the opposition moves to purge regime employees
  • offices are trashed and looted
  • violent power struggle
  • unitary state with a strong central government is unlikely to emerge from the civil war.
  • great challenges exerting control over local leaders who fought the regime
  • ederation of warlords (probably former military and security chiefs) ruling over fiefdoms
  • unitary entity
  • Syrian army
  • opposition will have more time to set up rudimentary institutions
  • provide humanitarian aid for Syrian refugees
  • likely be accompanied by a new round of massacres and ethnic cleansing
  • Sunni extremist groups.
  • new opportunities for external actors, especially Iran and Hizballah, both of which would seek allies among the former regime's Alawite security elite
  • Iran's
  • remain a major player in the Levant
  • hostile to Iran and more closely aligned with Turkey, Egypt, or Saudi Arabia.
  • revolutionary Sunni government in Syria
  • Iran and Hizballah
  • support to former regime
  • Washington should continue with preparations to contain spillover from the conflict
  • enabling it to collect tariffs on imports
  • Washington will need to know as much as it can about the key players,
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