Sam Hamad is a writer and analyst of Middle Eastern affairs based in Edinburgh. https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/contributor/sam-hamad/rss en Civil Society Thu, 14 Apr 2016 00:00:00 +0000 Sam Hamad https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/community/2016/04/14/how-noam-chomsky-betrayed-the-syrian-people https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/community/2016/04/14/how-noam-chomsky-betrayed-the-syrian-people American linguist and renowned left-wing activist Noam Chomsky’s stance on the Syria uprising turned proxy war is a betrayal of the Syrian people, writes analyst Sam Hamad. He has allowed his steadfast anti-imperialist approach to blind him to the Arab Spring’s complexities and contradictions.