Akram Bunni

Euphemistically, we could say that the fires of the Syrian people’s dreams have been put out. Their gentle hopes and dreams that all the world's peoples aspire to achieve in the new year are absent in the face of the emergence of extreme fear and anxiety that the next phase will carry, as the…

The encumbrances imposed on the health emergency and the exceptional measures demanded by the need to curtail the coronavirus’ spread weighed heavily on the anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Right on Thursday. Isolating cities, banning gatherings, regulating sports, cultural and…

The international conference on Syrian refugees that was recently held in Damascus did not add anything new. Its decisions seem to be nothing more than ink on paper, not only because it belittled the problem’s humanitarian and moral considerations and demonstrated that its political objective is to…

On an autumn evening in 2011, we heard the sound of intense gunfire in the air, in what could have been a celebration. As a group of opposition intellectuals and politicians, we had become accustomed to meeting to discuss the developments of the peace movement in Syria and the regime’s assaults on…

Besides the fact that world leaders participated from a distance because of the coronavirus, the 75th General Assembly of the United Nations did not differ from those that preceded it. The session prompted disagreement and division over how to deal with this pandemic. The positions adopted were as…

Erdogan’s words were not meaningless when he threatened Greece with a devastating fate if it dared to challenge what he considers his country’s rights in Mediterranean waters after large gas reserves were found there, since the belligerent rhetoric and stories of encroachment and sabotage have…

It is remarkable that the Syrian opposition is making headlines again, but unfortunately, not for its achievements but for the painful ironies and perhaps its recent ridiculous behaviors, including the many delusions and desires that control its calculations and positions. Isn’t it an outrageous…

There are many reasons for the Syrian people’s indifference to the elections that are scheduled for July 19 to elect members of the so-called People’s Council after having been postponed twice because of the coronavirus pandemic — which the regime was forced to admit to after much delay while the…

Assuming the reason behind the Caesar Act is not toppling the Syrian regime and instead, pressuring and forcing it to make concessions and agree to a political process according to the 2012 Geneva Conference and UN resolution, 2254 which sets the stage for expelling Iran’s militarily and the…

Beyond the exaggeration that the Caesar Act is like a declaration of war to overthrow the Syrian regime and beyond undermining the implications this Act will have on an exhausted regime that is in an economic and political crisis, while always undermining the impact of sanctions, five facts deserve…