Walid Saffour, President of the Syrian Human Rights Committee, recently gave an excellent talk at the Temple of Peace in Cardiff
http://www.shrc.org
Mohammad Arabi gave a brief overview and the recent history of Syria.   He said that there was a mix of Sunnis, Shiites, Christian, Kurds and Abyssinian in the country but Mohammed stressed that there were no religious or ethnic tensions in Syria, they were one nation.
Walid Saffour
Hafez al-Assad achieved a bloodless coup on 13th November 1970 and assumed the role of President.   Since then Syria has been ruled by …

On 5th July, Wyre Davies* gave a very insightful and interesting talk about the Arab Spring at the Welsh Centre for International Affairs in Cardiff.
Wyre began by explaining that the ‘Arab Spring’ had come as a huge surprise to everyone and had taken the spotlight away from the Israeli Palestine conflict. He then talked about the events in each country and what he felt the long term prospects were for each country.
Tunisia
The country is small the population is well-educated and pro-European.  Wyre felt that of all the Arab states the …