#Syria in Transition: Historical Origins and Prospects

#BassamHaddad, Associate Professor at George Mason University’s Schar School of Policy and Government, co-founder of #Jadaliyya, and author of "Business Networks in Syria," in conversation with Hesham Sallam

https://youtu.be/P0q-Hfhr7fk

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Bassam Haddad — Syria in Transition: Historical Origins and Prospects

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"We should ask how a society fractured by violence and oppression can heal, confront its painful past, and address a litany of unresolved traumas: from the Hama massacre in 1982 (10,000–40,000 killed) and the 2013 Ghouta chemical attack (over 1,400 killed, including many children) to the more than 100,000 forcibly disappeared and thousands executed in Saydnaya prison, to say nothing of the Syrian regime’s brutal occupation of Lebanon."

https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/syrias-human-debris/

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Rise and Fall of Assad’s Syria w/ Bassam Haddad

Featuring Bassam Haddad on the historical and geopolitical origins of Assad’s rise and fall—and what might happen next. We think through the contradictions: honoring the joy felt by Syrians at Assad’s ouster while simultaneously taking stock of a truly bad geopolitical outcome.

The Dig

"Prisons have been central to Syrian public consciousness for more than half a century. Some of the most notorious complexes, such as Tadmor (Palmyra) Prison, were constructed by the colonial French Mandate authorities. [..] The Syrian prison network in all its infamy, however, was assembled over two generations of #Assad rule."

https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/12/22/syria-the-prison-gates-thrown-open/
https://archive.ph/TSSir

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Syria: The Prison Gates Thrown Open | Stefan Tarnowski

As Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) pushed south from Idlib Province, the rebels’ first priority was to liberate prisons. From Aleppo to Hama to Homs, videos

The New York Review of Books
Inside Assad’s Prisons: A Conversation with Uğur Ümit Üngör

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The Long Shadow of Assad's Gulag: Syrian Former Detainees in Europe

Lecture by Uğur Ümit Üngör, Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Amsterdam & co-author of "#SyrianGulag: Inside #Assad’s Prison System"

CW: contains images & description of #torture

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljV4BUjZ2-A&pp=wgIGCgQQAhgB

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The Long Shadow of Assad's Gulag: Syrian Former Detainees in Europe

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