Karim El-Bar is an Egyptian-British reporter/editor for Middle East Eye. Follow me @karimadelovich. https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/contributor/karim-el-bar/rss en Government & Pro-Government Forces Mon, 30 Jan 2017 12:48:39 +0000 Karim El-Bar https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/community/2017/01/30/analysis-russia-plans-syria-name-change-in-draft-constitution https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/community/2017/01/30/analysis-russia-plans-syria-name-change-in-draft-constitution Moscow has suggested that the Syrian Arab Republic, which has been ruled by the pan-Arabist Baath party for four decades, remove ‘Arab’ from its name, writes Karim El-bar.