Faysal Abbas Mohamad
Faysal Abbas Mohamad is a retired Syrian-Canadian professor of international relations and Middle Eastern politics, as well as a longtime dissident who was an eyewitness to the Syrian uprising.
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Remembering My Brother and His Boss, Salah Jadid
When he became a pilot in Syria’s air force, standing in front of my mother in his green military uniform, I thought no one could be braver or stronger than my brother. But Syria in the 1960s and ’70s was a dangerous place, changing month by month, and navigating its treacherous waters often proved fatal, even to the strongest.
For Syria’s Alawites, the Dissenters and the Regime Are Never Remote
The officer explained that he advocated against granting me a visa because of my political past, a punitive measure intended to vindictively instill in us the notion that escape is impossible. Not only had we failed to prevent Hafez al-Assad’s ascension to power, we now had to live with the consequences.