Nir Boms

Journalist, Writer, Middle East Analyst

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Assad Is Speaking

June 1st, 2008 · No Comments · Saudi Arabia

Friday, December 12, 2003
By: Nir Boms and Erick Stakelbeck
In his three-and-a-half years as Syrian President, 38-year-old Bashar al-Assad has been called many things by U.S. officials. Misunderstood is not one of them.
Yet, if Assad’s recent comments to the New York Times are any indication, the U.S. has it all wrong when it comes to the [...]

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Promoting Human Rights

May 8th, 2008 · No Comments · Middle East, Saudi Arabia

Article published Mar 7, 2008
By Nir Boms
An important, yet underreported, summit took place recently in Riyadh. Turki K. Al Sudairy, a Saudi minister and president of the Saudi Supreme Human Rights Commission and Pakistan’s federal minister for human rights, Ansar Burney, conducted a series of high level meetings to discuss human rights in their respective [...]

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