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علي بهلول
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A participant in Al-Jumhuriya Fellowship for Young Writers.
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One Regime, Multiple Revolutions
Since the consolidation of the Assad state in the 1970sٕ, Syrians have been drowning in a raging sea of authoritarian symbols brought forth by a taboo-generating regime. Many ofٕ these symbols unambiguously demanded obedience, such as the iconic leader, his statues, and the reduction of Syria to his name. Other symbols had rather obscure effect on the structure of Syrian society, latently terrorizing them into…
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Syrian Alternative Media: In Search of an Audience
Outside the Parallel Universe We started to roll up the windows with haste. We glanced around the car to ensure that everything is tightly sealed, at which point the driver slightly turned the radio tuner. Now the sound is clearer, and there is no ambiguity in what we are hearing. The chants which reached us via FM radio made the blood rush to our heads,…
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A Snapshot of Life in Damascus
The soldier gave the IDs back to their owners except for two people. He kept the door of the van open before he moved away a little bit. It was immensely difficult to see what was happening outdoors during the early morning hours of that winter with barely any light around me. The way a woman squatting next to the door looked at me was…