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Coincidentally my article was published in @n_nationalism on the 11th anniversary of the #SyrianRevolution
It took a lot of work & revisions to finally get it out. It simultaneously evokes beautiful & painful memories about the greatest political event in my life🧵1/6
Coincidentally my article was published in @n_nationalism on the 11th anniversary of the #SyrianRevolution
It took a lot of work & revisions to finally get it out. It simultaneously evokes beautiful & painful memories about the greatest political event in my life🧵1/6
This article traces the discursive re-articulation of the sectarian narratives as part of the meaning-making processes in the context of the Syrian uprising's first 3 years and the country's devolution into civil war. It criticizes using groupist terms and reifying practices 2/6
Specifically, it traces how local and supralocal activists' reactions to the regime's brutal violence and its master narrative culminated in the activation and politicization of the category of ‘sect’ as a residual sociality (Lisa Wedeen's (2019)+Raymond Williams's (1977)) 3/6
#Syria: for two days now people in the southern province of #Suwayda are out to protest against the #Assad regime. @suwayda24 has translated some of the chants made by the protesters
#Syria: Syrians in Druze-majority #Suwayda chant "Oh Idlib, we are with you until death! Oh Daraa, we are with you until death".
Cross-sectarian solidarity is a nightmare for the regime
Cross-sectarian solidarity is a nightmare for the regime
#Syria: protesters in #Suwayda chant in in honor of the memory of Abdel Basset Sarout, the former goalkeeper who joined the rebellion became an icon of the #SyrianRevolution
Anwar Raslan is a 57 Years old former intelligence member from #Syria.
He is charged with crimes against humanity that include imprisonment & torture. Yesterday he appeared on trial in Germany in one of the first international trials of a Syrian defector.
He is charged with crimes against humanity that include imprisonment & torture. Yesterday he appeared on trial in Germany in one of the first international trials of a Syrian defector.
The charges he is being investigated with vary from rape to aggravated sexual assault & at least 58 murders at Branch 251, an intelligence unit prison Damascus #Syria amnesty.org.uk/press-releases…
#Syria BREAKING: regime forces are reported to have entered (and some say even captured) the city of Maarat al-Numan, one of the main symbols of the #SyrianRevolution in #Idlib
#Syria: thousands of civilians are on the run, fleeing from the regime towards the Turkish border.
Despite all the horror some Syrian children continue to smile
Despite all the horror some Syrian children continue to smile
