Farid N. Ghadry:Articles & Commentary

The following are articles & commentary related to Farid N. Ghadry.

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Personal and Professional Profiles

• Biography of Farid N. Ghadry stored in cache file at ReformSyria.org.
• Biography of Farid N. Ghadry in Who's Who of Asian Americans.
• Farid Ghadry's Blogger profile.
• Biography of Farid Ghadry, Reform Party of Syria (ecommon.com); updated November 7, 2006.

Testimony & Speeches by Farid Ghadry

• With Flynt Leverett, "Promoting Democracy in Syria: Options for U.S. Policy," The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, December 2, 2003.
• Speech by Farid Ghadry to the Helsinki Commission, The Helsinki Commission, March 10, 2005. Posted by Foundation for the Defense of Democracies.
• Farid Ghadry, President, Reform Party of Syria, House Committee on International Relations Subcommittee on the Middle East & Central Asia, June 7, 2006. (7-page pdf). Links to specific comments made by Ghadry. Also see transcript of full hearing.

Interviews with Farid Ghadry

• "Syria and Terrorism," Voice of America News (GlobalSecurity.org), October 10, 2003.
• Transcript: "Iraqi Rally Demands Direct Elections," Q&A/CNN, January 15, 2004.
• Kathryn Jean Lopez, Q&A: "A Loosening Grip. Protests in Lebanon give hope to two nations," National Review, March 2, 2005.
• Transcript: "Confronting Syria," On the Line/Voice of America News, March 2, 2005.
• Amy Goodman, "Is Bush Bringing Democracy to the Middle East? A Debate on U.S. Foreign Policy in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Egypt and More," Democracy Now!, March 9, 2005 (also posted by guerilla news network and Foundation for the Defense of Democracies).
• Manuela Paraipan, "Syria’s uncertain future," World Security Network, November 4, 2005.
• Transcript: " Iran And Syria's Proxy War," On the Line/Voice of America News, July 21, 2006.
• Glenn Beck, Transcript: "What Will Change Iran Situation?" CNN, August 23, 2006.
• Glenn Beck, Transcript: "Washington Needs To Take Iran`s President At His Word, He Promises 'A World Without the United States and Zionism'," CNN, August 24, 2006.
• Glenn Beck, Transcript: "What Should be Done with Iran?" CNN, November 14, 2006.

General Info

• Comments: Farid Ghadry, Occam's Toothbrush (September 28, 2003-July 5, 2004).

Undated Material

• "JCRC Meets with Leader of Syrian Political Party," Jewish Federation of Palm Beach (Florida).

Dated Material

1999

• "BW: Bizee.com's SmartPortal.Objects to Embrace Linux in Early 2000," Linux Today, December 14, 1999.

2000

• "Publications Resource Group, Inc. Partners with Bizee.com Inc. (Bizee.com) to Deploy Market Intelligence Research Reports Through Global B2B Portal," MindBranch.com, January 3, 2000.
• "Bizee Bee. Frank Ghadry's Safe Move Into E-commerce," BizForward.com, March 2000.
• Janet Gross, "The money game," MassHighTech.com, December 4, 2000.

2003

• Eli J. Lake, "Few Good Men. The Search for Syrian Liberals," The New Republic, May 15, 2003 (May 26, 2003, issue).
• Transcript: State Department Noon Briefing by State Department Deputy Spokesman J. Adam Ereli, November 18, 2003.
• Nir Boms and Erick Stakelbeck, "Is anyone listining? Syrians for Reform," National Review Online, November 21, 2003.

2004

• "Leader of the Reform Party of Syria: If 20% of Syria's Residents Rose Up, They Would Besiege the Regime," MEMRI, May 8, 2004.
• Judy Sarasohn, "Olson to Return to Gibson, Dunn," Washington Post, July 8, 2004.
• Joshua M. Landis, "US Foreign Aid to Syria," SyriaComment.com, July 16, 2004.
• Joshua M. Landis, "Is the Syrian Reform Party still in Business?" SyriaComment, August 24, 2004.
• Jim Lobe, "Sidelined Neocons Stoke Future Fires," Inter Press News Service (Common Dreams) (also posted at antiwar.com), October 8, 2004.
• "Syria and Iran threaten Iraqi democracy," RPS News Release (Kurdish Media), October 16, 2004.
• "Washington 'Syrian Democratic Coalition' Conference, November 12-28, 2004," RPS (posted November 8, 2006).

2005

• Elizabeth Eaves, "To Be Chalabi, or Not To Be. This Syrian exile wants to overthrow another evil Baathist dictator. How can he persuade the U.S. to help him?" Slate, February 7, 2005.
• Justin Raimondo, "Syria in the Crosshairs. You didn't think they would stop with Iraq, did you?" antiwar.com, February 16, 2005.
• Issandr El Amrani, "What next for Syria and Lebanon?" Arabist, February 17, 2005. Scroll down to article segment by Ghadry published in the Middle East Quarterly.
• Jamie Glazov, "Symposium: Syria’s Glasnost?" FrontPageMag.com (Amarji.org), March 25, 2005.
• Robin Wright and Glenn Kessler, "Bush Administration Probes Syria's Future With Assad's Opposition," Washington Post, March 26, 2005.
• Joshua M. Landis, "Bush Administration Probes Syria's Future With Assad's Opposition," SyriaComment, March 26, 2005.
• Editorial: "The Real Syrian Opposition," The New York Sun, April 12, 2005.
• Joshua M. Landis, "News Round Up," SyriaComment, April 19, 2005.
• A.J. Kornblith, Opinion: "From Syria with love," The Cavalier Daily, April 21, 2005.
• Allan Cruickshanks, "Democratizing the Middle East," The Cavalier Daily, April 22, 2005.
• Joseph Braude, "Compare and Contrast: Why Farid Ghadry Is Not the Ahmad Chalabi of Syria," Cordova Blogspot, May 16, 2005. (Article first appeared in The New Republic Online on April 1, 2005.)
• Patrick Seale, "Syria in the Eye of the Storm," AgenceGlobal.com, May 30, 2005.
• "RPS Meets with the National Security Council," August 31, 2005. Posted by Joshua Landis at SyriaComment.com.
• Joshua M. Landis, "Farid Ghadry Instills Confidence," SyriaComment.com, September 6, 2005.
• Dean Godson, "Regime change slowly advances along the road to Damascus," Times Online (UK), September 10, 2005.
• Barbara Slavin, "U.S. pressures Syria to fall in line on Lebanon, Iraq," USA TODAY, September 20, 2005.
• Jeffrey Gedmin, "Next year in Damascus: Syrian democracy is thriving—in exile," The Weekly Standard (FindArticles.com), October 24, 2005. Also posted in the Aspen Institute's Berlin Bulletin.
• Trish Schuh, "US and Israeli Proxies Pushing the Next Neo-Con War: Faking the Case Against Syria," CounterPunch (MostlyWater.org), November 18, 2005.
• Neil King, Jr., "Syria Debate Exposes Iraq Fault Lines," Wall Street Journal, December 6, 2005. Posted at RegimeChangeInIran.com and A Daily Briefing on Iran by DoctorZin.
• H.D.S. Greenway, Editorial: "A hungry eye for Damascus?" Boston Globe, December 13, 2005.
• Jim Lobe, "Israel Troubled by Bush's Priorities," antiwar.com, December 14, 2005.
• Gary Leupp, "A Syrian Chalabi? An Ominous Neocon Gathering," Dissident Voice, December 22, 2005.

2006

• Justin Raimondo, "Abramoff and the Israeli Connection. Washington sleazebag funneled money to Israel's 'settler' movement," antiwar.com, January 11, 2006.
• Joshua M. Landis, "Abramoff Supported Farid Ghadry as well as Militant Israeli Settlers," SyriaComment.com, January 11, 2006.
• Leela Jacinto, "Ex-Insider Sends Shock Waves Through Syria. Can Opposition Groups Abroad Produce Radical Change in the Middle Eastern Nation?" ABC News, January 12, 2006.
• Trish Schuh, "Abramoff Linked to anti-Syria Party," Daily Muslims/Muslims Weekly, January 13, 2006.
• Robert Dreyfuss, "Syria In Their Sights. The neocons plan their next 'cakewalk'," The American Conservative, January 16, 2006.
• "Jack Abramoff and the Syrian 'Chalabi'," Xymphora Blogspot, January 23, 2006.
• Kevin K., "Syria's Chalabi," Catch.com, February 7, 2006.
• "He doesn't know where to go. Bashar Assad is unsure which way to jump, while the West, especially the United States, is unsure how or where to push him," The Economist, February 9, 2006.
• sasa, "America gives $5 million to the anti-Syrian government opposition - who'll win the prize?" The Syria News Wire, February 19, 2006.
• Ammar Abdulhamid, "A Hectic Day!" Amarji Blogspot, March 9, 2006.
• Joshua M. Landis, "Authorities Forbid Syrians from Meeting US Officials or US-Based Opposition," SyriaComment, March 20, 2006.
• "Reactions to Khaddam-Bayanouni from Opposition in Exile," The Syria Monitor, March 27, 2006.
• Nehad Ismail, "The Syrian regime is not about to collapse," MideastWeb Middle East Web Log, March 31, 2006.
• Robert Dreyfuss, "Vice Squad," The American Prospect, April 17, 2006.
• "Report on Montreal's Opposition Meeting (4/29)," The Syria Monitor, May 8, 2006.
• David Schenker, "The Syria Accountability and Lebanese Sovereignty Restoration Act of 2003: Two Years On," The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, June 7, 2006.
• Joshua M. Landis, "Ghadry's Reform Party of Syria Slams Bayanouni and Khaddam," SyriaComment, June 10, 2006.
• "Reform Party Activity," The Syria Monitor, June 27, 2006.
• Matthew Yglesias, "When in Doubt: Find an Exile," TAPPED, June 30, 2006.
• Robert Spencer, "Iran to Nuke Israel on August 22?" Human Events Online (WatcherMagazine.com), July 26, 2006.
• Robert Spencer, "Iran's Day of Terror?" FrontPageMag.com, July 27, 2006.
• Payson Schwin, "Neoconservatives Predict The Apocalypse Starts Tomorrow," Think Progress, August 21, 2006.
• Michael J. Totten, "Tuesday, not Doomsday," The Daily Dish Blog (Andrew Sullivan), August 22, 2006.
• Tony Bedran, "Divided They Stand: The Syrian Opposition," Mideast Monitor, September/October 2006. Scroll down to "The Internal-External Divide".
• sasa, "Evidence that a Syrian opposition party is working on behalf of the Bush government," The Syria News Wire, September 16, 2006.
• Ira Stoll, "Like Father, Unlike Son," The New York Sun, September 27, 2006.
• "We should Support the Kurdish Rights in Syria," October 8, 2006.
• Ruthie Blum, "One on One: 'Our rejection of Israel is our demise'," The Jerusalem Post, October 19, 2006.
• Joshua M. Landis, "Syrian Corruption Hits Prime Time," SyriaComment, October 30, 2006. Scroll down to "Farid Ghadry claims..."
• Tony Badran, "Divided They Stand: The Syrian Opposition," The Mideast Monitor (posted by Foundation for the Defense of Democracies), October 31, 2006.
• Silvia Cattori, "The Assassination of Rafik Hariri: A Biased Investigation," IranSolidarity/EndOfEmpire.org, November 5, 2006.
• "RPS Activity in the US," The Syria Monitor, November 6, 2006.
• George Ajjan, "The Democrat Congress and the Syrian opposition," ajjan.com, November 13, 2006.

2007

• Shahar Ilan, Exiled Syrian opposition leader to visit Knesset, Haaretz, 27 May 2007.
• Yitzhak Benhorin, Syrian opposition head warns against peace with Assad, YnetNews.com, 27 May 2007.
• Amnon Meranda, Arab MKs attack visiting exiled Syrian leader, YnetNews.com, 11 June 2007.
• Roee Nahmias, Syrian opposition leader: Israeli factories can stay in Golan, YnetNews.com, 13 June 2007.
• Roee Nahmias, Family members censures Syrian opposition leader, YnetNews.com, 14 August 2007.
• Roee Nahmias, Opposition in Syria raises its head, YnetNews.com, 3 September 2007.
• Yoav Stern, Assad revokes citizenship of politician who visited Knesset, Haaretz, 15 September 2007.
• Nir Boms, Defiance in Damascus, The Washington Post, 27 September 2007.
• Jihad el-Khazen, Ayoon Wa Azan ( My Opinion And I Am Free ), Dae Al Hayat, 5 October 2007.

2011

• Yitzhak Benhorin, Top dissident: Syrians don't want war with Israel, YnetNews.com, 29 March 2011
• Maidhc Ó Cathail, JINSA: Strengthening Israel by Promoting Syrian "Chalabi", DissidentVoice, 20 February 2012.