The First Test for Syria’s Transition Will Be the Economy
March 4th, 2025
Via World Politics Review, a report on Syria’s economic challenges ahead: Shoppers have long been coming to the Al-Hamidiyah market in central Damascus to purchase everything from clothes and home appliances to spices and even gold. In and around the Ottoman-era structure can be found links to Syria’s and the broader region’s history. The metal […]
Read more »Priorities For Rebuilding Syria’s Economy
February 28th, 2025
Via Eurasia Review, commentary on the priorities for rebuilding Syria’s economy: After more than a decade of war, destruction and economic collapse in Syria, the country’s new government faces an urgent and formidable challenge: rebuilding the nation’s shattered economy. Years of conflict have devastated infrastructure, displaced millions and left the country struggling with widespread poverty, […]
Read more »Syria Just Hosted Its First International Tech Conference In 50 Years
February 13th, 2025
Via Rest of World, a report on hopes of Syrian-American entrepreneurs and investors hope to facilitate 25,000 new tech jobs in the country by 2030: While much of the world was focused on a radical proposal by the U.S. president to transform the Middle East, a group of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and tech leaders gathered […]
Read more »Conflict Is Remaking the Middle East’s Economic Order
December 22nd, 2024
Via The Economist, a look at how conflict is remaking the Middle East’s economic order where Iran is boxed in as Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Turkey look to capitalize: THE LIQUIDITY crunch could not have come at a worse time. Usually, most of Hizbullah’s budget arrives on a plane in Damascus, the Syrian capital, with […]
Read more »The Influencer Chef Dividing Syria’s Diaspora
December 1st, 2024
Via Foreign Policy, an article on Chef Omar who has popularized Damascene cuisine online and in his Istanbul restaurant. But is he linked to the Assad regime? In March, days before the start of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, a line stretched for a block in Aksaray, a neighborhood that has been dubbed “Little […]
Read more »Banker, Princess, Warlord: The Many Lives of Syria’s First Lady
November 24th, 2024
Courtesy of The Economist’s 1843 Magazine, a look at how a girl from west London became the unlikely winner of Syria’s war: Last summer a photograph of Syria’s First Lady circulated on social media. At the time, government troops in north-west Syria were battering the last pockets of rebel resistance to the regime. The picture […]
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