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Bashar al-Assad

Posted inCurrent Events, Featured, Nonfiction, Quotes

For Ordinary Syrians, Is Backing Assad the Only Option?

by Krista Stevens June 7, 2017October 19, 2022

Sometimes the best choice is the devil you know.

Posted inFeatured, Nonfiction, Quotes

Six Years Later, Over 400,000 Dead: The Graffiti Kids Who Sparked the Syrian War

by Krista Stevens February 14, 2017October 19, 2022

Mark MacKinnon tells the story of Naief Abazid — who, at the urging of some older boys, graffitied a school wall on a lark in Daraa, Syria, at age 14. The “writing on the wall” enraged Syria’s Baathist dictatorship, and became the source of ignition in the Syrian war.

Posted inNonfiction, Quotes

“Discourse Is a Battleground”

by michelleweber January 14, 2017October 19, 2022

Yusaf Khalil interviews Syrian scholar Yasser Munif about the roots of the Syrian civil war and how the West is trying (and failing) to help.

Posted inEditor's Pick

Syria and the Left

by michelleweber January 11, 2017October 19, 2022

Jacobin‘s Yusef Khalil conducted an wide-ranging interview with Yasser Munif, a Syrian scholar of grassroots movements, to break down the key moral and political issues feeding the Syrian war.

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