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Laila Al-Shami

Leila Al-Shami is a Syrian writer, human rights activist, and co-author of Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War (Pluto Press, 2016). She tweets @LeilaShami.

The US protests: Lessons from Syria

Laila Al-Shami 5 June 2020

As Trump threatens to turn the army on peaceful demonstrators, Syrian activist and author Leila Al-Shami writes what Americans might learn from Syria’s nine-plus years of revolutionary struggle.

Syria’s shock doctrine

Laila Al-Shami 23 April 2018

Having expelled whole communities en masse from numerous Syrian cities and towns, a new law now allows the Assad regime to confiscate their properties, rendering their displacement permanent and radically transforming the country’s demography.

Fighting on All Fronts: Women’s Resistance in Syria

Laila Al-Shami 26 December 2016

As eastern Aleppo falls, pounded by regime and Russian airstrikes, and stormed by Iranian sponsored militia on the ground, one young woman risks everything to communicate to the outside world the horror of the last days in the liberated part of the city.

The Dispossessed

Laila Al-Shami 19 December 2016

Six years ago Syrians rose up because they wanted democracy. And today they are exiled from their homes, against their will.

The US protests: Lessons from Syria

Syria’s shock doctrine

Fighting on All Fronts: Women’s Resistance in Syria

The Dispossessed

A platform for Syrians to own their discourse.

A platform for Syrians to own their discourse.