Latakia
Syria’s Forests Are on Fire
Massive wildfires have engulfed the Syrian coast, burning through forests in Latakia, Hama and Idlib and threatening to worsen the country’s food crisis. In their wake have come competing accusations of blame.
The Wandering Alawite
Syria's Alawite minority have always been painfully aware of the fragility of sectarian coexistence. Many of us preferred one dictator, Bashar al-Assad, to a Syria broken into multiple sectarian dictatorships. So, despite reservations, despite its repression, we still stuck by the regime.
Present at the Creation of the Syrian Revolution
Studying Arabic in Syria gave one student a first-hand perspective on the tensions and grievances of living in the country. But he could never have predicted how rapidly early protests would give way to a civil war.