season is upon us! Three families live crammed in the one house, where they share the rooms, food and work. They even share the house’s costs, which have become reasons for sharp disputes whose echoes reach my own home.
“We received mouneh jars and a meal of freshly cooked rice with soft and juicy fava beans during the first days of Ramadan,” my neighbor tells me. Authentic and much-loved Damascene dishes have become far-fetched dreams, given Syria s worsening economic situation. People are struggling with hunger and unreasonably high food prices, which have increased as the Syrian lira spirals to new lows.
This article is part of a limited series marking a decade since the start of the Syrian revolution. Read this piece, originally written in Arabic, here.
It has been a decade since the outbreak of the Syrian revolution, the divergence of its paths and the onset of the Arab Spring.
There is no better time than the present to recall that event and tackle it from different angles. We can recall the moment of hope that accompanied these revolutions, or focus on what the uprisings represented when they cracked open the public sphere that had been forcibly closed for decades by different Arab despotic regimes.
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