Five Years of Isolation

By: Issam Khoury 04/01/2010 The case against the Democratic Social Party on August 12th, 2009 has been impacted by the decision of the Turkish Constitutional Court to ban their activity inside Turkish territory. However, such a decision will not only affect the party’s headquarters, but it would apply to approximately 220 of its members, who…

Alawites in Lebanon

By: Issam Khoury 12/13/2008 Poverty and ignorance have always been prevalent in the Nusayri (Alawite) region of Mohsen Mount, and the Sunni region Bab al-Tabbaneh, which has recently witnessed a violent struggle in the Northern city of Tripoli, Lebanon. Mohsen Mount: Most Lebanese know that this area is the center for Alawites, well known to…

The political Maronism “A Lebanese maturity or a civil war “

Written By:  ISSAM KHOURY, Feb.12/2007 Lebanon has been a land of never-ending struggles, from the beginning of their civil war until now. During the Syrian domination on Lebanon, ‘the guardianship period’, about which the Syrians boast they had established the conception of stability and safety for the benefit of the Lebanese people, there were intermittent…

AL-KADIRIYE SCHOOL IN SYRIA

By: Issam Khoury, Feb.03.2009 The Qadiriyya is one of the most important religious schools, and where many religious young men in Syria graduate from. With the absence of a clear highlight over this school, one might realize the advantages it presents for the flourishing and increase of the Salafi movements in the area. This is…

AL-Salafiya and its penetration to the association of Al-Fatih Al-Islami

By: Issam Khoury Feb.28.2009 That most of those who executed the explosion of Palestine branch on the airport road was students in Fatih al-Islam Institute, All the while, the Syrian Authority was embracing and encouraging the activities of the Institute. They took into consideration the requests of its Sheikhs who were well known as being…

La Enta Habibi

This party to support Umm El-Fahem Museum, Jan 12. 2017

Research: Religion in the Nusayri “Alawi” sect

By: Issam Khoury June 28.2008 Al-Nusayris are no different from Muslims in their analysis of the concept of doctrine and jurisprudence, as they admit it publicly. But the Alawite sect( Nusayri) is a far cry from Islamic thought. Being described as a branch of the Shiites is farfetched despite the common large portion of Shiite…