Huda Aljord Huda Aljord teaches Arabic and cultural studies at Riverside City College and UC Riverside. She is a board member of Citizens for a Secure and Safe America, an organization supporting democracy in Syria. As an Arab Muslim woman teaching in California for the past decade, I have heard more hate and disinformation about […]

WASHINGTON, DC – Citizens for a Secure and Safe America (C4SSA) is deeply alarmed by the recent escalation of violence by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) in Northwest Syria. HTS was designated as a terrorist organization by the United States, Turkey, and other countries in 2018 due to the group’s affiliation to Al-Qaeda. Following a series

The UAE’s decision to expand bilateral relations with mass-murderer Assad should set off alarms throughout the free world WASHINGTON, DC – The Syrian American Diaspora at large and their organizations condemn the United Arab Emirates’ decision to host Syrian dictator Bashar Al-Assad while his mass murderous wrath continues with impunity. “I am shocked and outraged

The Syrian American community today achieved tangible results after years of hard work and exercising their democratic rights in the United States.  The White House, State Department, Treasury Department, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chair Jim Risch, and House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Engel all issued strong statements in support of the Syrian people. Today the State Department followed by the Treasury Department announced sweeping sanctions against

WASHINGTON, DC — Members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee sent a strongly-worded bipartisan letter to the Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and the administration on Monday, October 26, 2020, expressing deep concerns over the notion that various countries, in the Middle East and beyond, have taken steps to renew formal diplomatic ties with Bashar Al-Assad despite his ongoing

WASHINGTON, DC — Citizens for a Secure and Safe America (C4SSA) extends its congratulations to President-elect Joseph Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. We look forward to working with you and your administration in ensuring Syria becomes a more central focus of U.S. foreign policy and national security and further supporting freedom and stability in

Late last month, Syrians in the southern Syrian province of Daraa experienced the worst siege in years by the Assad regime when dozens of innocent Syrian citizens were killed in the very cradle of the Syrian Revolution. We thank Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ), the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for condemning the attacks

By Dr. Abdul Abdulbaki While Syria was not the top priority during the Biden-Putin summit in Geneva last week, Syria remains an unavoidable challenge for both the United States and Russia, and the Middle East nation will come up again in substantive ways in follow-on American-Russian talks. For its part, Russia’sinterest in Syria and the

Finding a new job in a foreign country as an adult, when you don’t speak the language or understand the culture is a challenge most people, let alone Americans have and will never experience in their lives.  Integration into a new society is no easy task, but it can and has been accomplished and with