Temas Variso

Arab Spring

History
The Alawite Syria, which constitutes 12 percent of the population of Syria, is a dissident sect of Shiism in the ninth century. Until the twentieth century is known as the nuasiríes by its founder, Ibn Nusayr. They come from the mountains north of Latakia, near the border with Turkey.

They follow a syncretic theology steep secrecy that contains an amalgam of elementsNeoplatonists, Gnostics, Christians, Muslims and Zoroastrians. His theological leader, Abdullah al-Khasibi, who died in 957, proclaiming the divinity of Ali, cousin and son of Muhammad, but also revered by Shiite worship. They believe that the path of salvation and the knowledge resides in a series of divine emanations, the recognition of a line of prophets from Adam and ends with Christ andMohammed, and includes figures from classical antiquity, like Socrates, Plato and Galen and some teachers of pre-Islamic Persian.

Sunni and Shia look like ghulta. Like other sectarian groups to protect their tradition through the feces, the right to hide their beliefs to protect themselves from prosecution. His secret is also protected by an elaborate system of initiation, in which the initiates wereknown for key phrases or neophytes and formed a spiritual bond with their guides, naqibs.

Syria is a republic since 1963. In 1973 a referendum approved the current Constitution defines Syria as a Democratic Republic, Socialist People's, based, among others, Arab socialism, the principles of equality before the law, religious freedom and prived property.
Every seven years it elects apresident, who must be Muslim, and four, a People's Assembly and a Council of Ministros. Under the Constitution, the president has powers to appoint and dismiss the Vice-Prime Minister and ministers. It is also commander in chief of the Armed Forces, General Secretary of the Arab Baath Socialist Party and president of the National Progressive Front of the country.

The legislative bodies are thePeople's Assembly and the Board of Directors Local. The three branches of government are controlled by the Syrian Baath 15 having secured the decisive participation in the branches of government by the Constitution of the country.

Participation is permitted six other minor political parties together to make up the majority Baath called the National Progressive Front (NPF) these parties are authorizedto express political views of citizens also is the party sirios. Baaz mentioned that dominates the front, these parties of Parliament, which is directly controlled by the President as the executive branch retains most of the legislative powers and review the activities of Legislativo.

The Syrian Constitution vests the Baath Party, the leadership roles of state government and the Syriansociety life. The President, who has great power to run the government, is elected for seven years to fulfill their duties, in addition to this turn is the Chairman of the Baath Party and National Front leader progresista. Syrian President also has the powers to appoint ministers, declare war, propose legislation to the legislature, and direct the armed forces. The referendum for the election ofPresident in 2007, was reelected with 97% of the votes Bashar al-Assad.

Arab spring
The revolutions and protests in the Arab world in 2010 and 2011, called by various means such as the democratic revolution or Arab spring in a series of popular uprisings in the Arab countries, especially North Africa, described as a revolution in the international press, which began with the revolution in Tunisia,whose start date is usually taken in the murder of 26-year-old Mohamed Bouazizi. The history of revolutions have been numerous secular and republican, to date these have been marked by the birth of military coups and governments give way to some as authoritarian, with or without popular support, while current events are characterized by a democratic demand, and a substantial improvement of living...