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Over the course of a year in the 1970s, a group of Syrian leftist poets and short story writers gathered to publish an underground literary zine, clandestinely printing at university libraries and handing out copies to students and friends. The publication went unnamed and, at least for a little for a while, outside the radar of the mukhabarat. In the short period before its editors either faced arrest or were forced into hiding, “the pamphlet,” as it came to be known, made waves through Syria’s literary scene. ....
In early 2011, as she watched the removal of the graffiti that had been scrawled around Tahrir Square in the heady days of the popular uprising, followed by a “cleansing” of that space of revolt, Dina Heshmat realized she was witnessing the deliberate rewriting of history, a deletion of the people’s spontaneous discourse, to be replaced by a more elitist narrative. Guided by this awareness, Heshmat sets out, in Egypt 1919: The Revolution in Literature and Film, (Edinburgh University Press, 2020) to re-examine the Egyptian revolution of the previous century, looking into the country’s archives to find unpublished novels and out-of-print articles that reflect the people’s mood during what she argues was the early 20th century’s equivalent of Egypt’s Arab Spring: a popular uprising against an oppressive regime by society’s poorest and most downtrodden classes, that was later claimed by the nationalist bourgeoisie. ....
Asma al-Akhras al-Assad never thought her family would ever be targeted by the US Caesar Act sanctions. More than that, the sanctions came to prove that change in Syria is an American policy, regardless of who is in the White House, whether it is Donald Trump or Joe Biden. Saturday 02/01/2021 Syrian President Bashar al-Assad (C), his wife Asma (L) and their children during the afforestation of Harsh al-Tufaha (Apple Forest) area in al-Drekish countryside in western Syria. (AFP) From The struggle for Syria , the title of British Patrick Seale s book in the mid-1960s, to Nicholas Van Damme s The Struggle for Power in Syria in the 1970s, there was a return in 2020 to a mix of the two struggles. ....