The fuel crisis in Syria, could be used as an opportunity to push the regime to accept a political solution and potentially could lead to a change at the top of the regime writes Iqtissad. The shortage of gasoline and the almost total inability to provide solutions, has put the Assad regime under increasing pressure…
إسطنبول – عبدالله رجا بعد أن أغرقت إيران سوريا بالميليشيات الطائفية على مدى السنوات الثماني الماضية، والتي باتت جزءاً من الحالة السورية في ريف دمشق ومحافظة دير الزور، انتقل نظام الملالي إلى مرحلة جديدة للهيمنة على سوريا من خلال البوابة الاقتصادية. وبدأت تصريحات المسؤولين الإيرانيين تظهر للعلن مطالبة بالديون المترتبة على سوريا في الوقت الذي…
From infrastructure and urban planning to funding and democratic dialogue, in this next installment of our “Experts to Watch” series we highlight 10 experts who focus on the different aspects of reconstruction in Syria. Despite ongoing fighting, daily shelling and a severe lack of humanitarian access in certain areas of Syria, the international community and the…
ABU DHABI // A four-step plan to help rebuild the Syrian economy was presented by the Friends of Syria working group at the capital’s Emirates Palace hotel yesterday. The plan covers the immediate impact measures needed to be taken after the fall of President Bashar Al Assad’s regime, donor coordination, the development of a new…
Syrian Economic Task Force, SETF, is an economic research group that plays an awareness role in international conferences, workshops and media, to show the historical, current economic crisis and vision of future Syrian economy. Interview with Osama Kadi during the Femise annual conference, 29-30 of April 2017 in Casablanca where about a hundred Mediterranean experts…
Der Wiederaufbau Syriens wird lange dauern und Unsummen verschlingen. Der syrisch-schweizerische Autor Joseph Daher wirft einen Blick auf die Hindernisse, welche dem Wiederaufbau im Weg stehen. Nicht selten haben sie ihren Ursprung in der Natur des Assad-Regimes. Zehn Tage lang fand Mitte August zum ersten Mal seit 2011 die Damascus International Trade Fair statt, um ausländische Investoren…
In October 2011, Syrian entrepreneur Mohaned Ghashim made one of the most difficult decisions of his life. For years, he had run two flourishing businesses in Aleppo, Syria’s largest city and business hub. One of his enterprises was an online tenders portal for the Syrian market; the other was an e-commerce agency. He supervised a…
In an interview with Zaman al-Wasl, Dr. Osama Qadi, the head of the “Syrian Economic Taskforce” said Syria’s debt to Iran has reached $35 billion and the debt to Russia exceeds that amount. Dr. Qadi told Zaman al-Wasl that studies estimate that rebuilding houses destroyed in the fighting will require more than 2 billion US…
With no end in sight to a war that started six years ago, has claimed more than 465,000 lives, and displaced millions, it is fair to ask when is the right time to launch a much-needed effort to rebuild Syria. Should this effort start now, while the country is still ravaged by war, or once…
IT REPRESENTS the greatest humanitarian challenge of our time. Five years of intense fighting has plunged a once vibrant country into darkness. The destruction and despair wrought by the Syrian Civil War has caused a “systematic” obliteration of infrastructure and population. Such is the backward direction of the country, that from 2010 to 2015, the…
