Letter from Damascus: Will Syria Descend into Civil War?

Sami Moubayed is editor of the Damascus-based Forward Magazine and teaches at the University of Kalamoon. He is the author of Steel and Silk: Men and Women Who Shaped Syria 1900–2000 (Cune Press, 2005) and Syria and the USA: Washington's Relations with Damascus from Wilson to Eisenhower (IB Tauris, 2011).