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Lara Sabra
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Lara Sabra is an Anthropology PhD student at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She researches prison systems in Lebanon by drawing on the memories and creative practices of formerly incarcerated women.
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The Heart of the Death MachineThe Assad regime cannot live without the very pillar of its existence: the gulag. This is the case made by Jaber Baker and Uğur Ümit Üngör in their book Syrian Gulag: Inside Assad’s Prison System, published in October 2023. In this meticulously researched and eye-opening work, the authors argue that the carceral system built by the Assads straddles the “gray zone” between concentration camp and…