By Maria Assaf in Oxford, England In 2016 Canada’s first Syrian newspaper, The Migrant, was founded by Kameel Nasrawi. Nasrawi worked as a journalist and screenplay…
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Most Terrorists are Average Joes
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We’re Learning the Wrong Lessons from Brussels — and It’s Going to Cost Us
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by Leah Bjornson in Vancouver The Canadian government announced their plan today to bring 10,000 Syrian refugees to the country by the end of the…
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by Hadani Ditmars in Vancouver, British Columbia As I walked along a Vancouver beach near my home this morning, I reflected on the extraordinary sea…
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by Leah Bjornson in Vancouver Over the last week, the Canadian public has awakened to the grim reality of the current refugee crisis springing from…
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One Canadian Youth Recruited to ISIS is One Too Many
by Dr. Ghayda Hassan and Hicham Tiflati (@HTiflati) in Montreal Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the latest born of extremist movements, has drawn…
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by Atom Egoyan (@TheFullEgoyan) in Toronto They are disappearing. When I arrived in Toronto in 1978 and first became involved with Armenian issues, there were…
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After Tahrir: Egypt’s Growing War on Terror
by Firas Al-Atraqchi (@Firas_Atraqchi) in Cairo, Egypt Four years after hundreds of thousands of Egyptians took to the streets to demand political, social and economic change,…
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Bombing of Libyan Islamist Rebels a Turning Point in Mideast Proxy Wars
by Jonathan Manthorpe (@jwmanthorpe) in Vancouver The proxy wars between Islamist and secular Arab leaders that have been seething across the Middle East for three years have…
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