OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT OBAMA IN WASHINGTON POST: Russian bombing of Syria is causing death and destruction, fueling extremism The Hague, 1 February 2016 – The campaign group Naame Shaam (1) has called on the US President Barack Obama to pressure Russia to stop bombing Syria. The […]
Read more →OPEN LETTERS TO THE US PRESIDENT IN THE WASHINGTON POST, 2 of 2 Iranian intervention in Syria causing death and destruction, fueling sectarian strife The Hague, 14 December 2015 – The campaign group Naame Shaam (1) today published the second of two open letters to the US […]
Read more →OPEN LETTERS TO THE US PRESIDENT IN THE WASHINGTON POST, 1 of 2 What is President Obama’s strategy on dealing with the expected increase of Iran’s financing of terror following the nuclear deal? The Hague, 8 December 2015 – The campaign group Naame Shaam (1) yesterday published […]
Read more →A short video about a conference held at the European Parliament on 18 November 2015 titled “Countering Extremism and Improving Governance in the MENA Region” and hosted by Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE). One of the speakers was Fouad Hamdan, the Executive Director of […]
Read more →An article by Torie Rose DeGhett, Vice News, October 8, 2015, quoting Naame Shaam’s Campaigns Director Fouad Hamdan: “Hamdan represents another camp; when asked if Iran is already over its head inside the civil war, his answer is, “yes, absolutely.” “Specifically referencing Hezbollah’s involvement, Hamdan believes that, […]
Read more →US policy in Syria ‘to systemically bleed Iran, Hezbollah’ Kristen Gillespie, Syria Direct, 13 Aug 2015, link “Many in DC claim that the US administration has no Syria strategy,” says Fouad Hamdan, executive director of the grassroots activist network Naame Shaam. “Wrong; President Obama’s Syria policy is […]
Read more →Naame Shaam: Iran militarily occupying Syria, ‘Assad doesn’t matter’ Kristen Demilio, Syria Direct, 12 Aug 2015, link In the spring of 2014, a handful of Syrian, Lebanese and Iranian activists held a protest in Berlin denouncing Tehran’s involvement in the Syrian war. “Syria is Iran’s Vietnam,” read […]
Read more →Documenting sectarian cleansing in Syria Fouad Hamdan & Shiar Youssef | The Daily Star | May. 20, 2015 | link There have been reports and rumors of certain areas of Syria being emptied of their Sunni residents, to be replaced with Shiite and Alawite supporters of the […]
Read more →Below is an interview with Naame Shaam’s Fouad Hamdan by Shia Watch about the disastrous role of the Iranian regime and its Hezbollah militia in Syria. Bearing the High Cost of Iran’s Multifaceted Ambitions An interview with Fouad Hamdan, Campaign Director for Naame Shaam Iran’s Sepah […]
Read more →An article by Jeffrey Goldberg in The Atlantic, published on 30 December 2014, quoting Naame Shaam’s OpEd on the Middle East Institute website on 17 December 2014. Iran Is Getting Away With Murder Achieving a nuclear deal with Tehran is hugely important. But stopping Iran from […]
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