Analysis of the Arab League’s decision to pull out observers from Syria. Top story on Five Live Breakfast.

The half-hour interview with Jeremy Vine, on Syria.

SAKHR AL-MAKHADHI – Who are the Syrian opposition, and why do they seem to be fighting each other more than the regime? From the perspective of many outsiders, it appears the Syrian regime has been bent on self-destruction for 10 months. More than 5,000 people are now thought to have been killed since the uprising began [...]

An interview for Canada’s CKNW Radio.

SAKHR AL-MAKHADHI – 2011 has been a year of small cities for me. Riding a rattly old one-car tram into town from Sarajevo airport was like a trip back in time. Just south of the low-rise Ottoman walled old city, the Latin Bridge is where Archduke Franz Ferdinand was killed in 1914, sparking the First World [...]

As Arab League monitors complete the first day of their tour of Homs, a Syria blogger tells Channel 4 News “all sides are trying to make political capital” as civil war unfolds. A group of Arab League observers have finished their first day of observation and will continue touring the area over the next 24 [...]

SAKHR AL-MAKHADHI – London’s Edgware Road has been dubbed the 23rd Arab state, and for good reason. Almost every restaurant, cafe and shop along this long, straight road is Lebanese, Syrian, Palestinian or Iraqi. Stretching northwards from Hyde Park, it smells and sounds like no other street in London. There are the street-side shisha cafes, the shawarma [...]

SAKHR AL-MAKHADHI – Swiss chocolatiers have long reigned supreme in the confectionary stakes, but now a UAE-based company is trying to beat them at their own game – with an unusual Arabian ingredient. For the past four years, Dutch businessman Martin van Almsick has been living in the desert outside Dubai in the company of [...]

J magazine SAKHR AL-MAKHADHI – They’re whooping and cheering. Two of the guys in t-shirts high five. Some of them look like they’re barely out of school. Almost every single one of them has a laptop, iPad or iPhone. It’s like a scene from a Steve Jobs press conference. But this isn’t California. It’s Jordan, and this is the [...]

An interview for The Listening Post on Al Jazeera English.