The Palestine Chronicle, an online news magazine and journal about Palestine, Israel, the Arab world, Middle East and international affairs, published a lengthy opinion piece about Syria by Saint Mary's politics professor Hisham Ahmed. "Syria's Uprising and the International Community," a 1,693-word op-ed by Ahmed chronicles the rise of Syria's leader Bashar Al-Assad and argues for an Arab solution, rather than Western intervention, to bring an end to Assad’s reign of terror on his own people.