What made Syrians fight for revolution?

The Slow Newscast by Alice Sandelson

Sep 11, 202625:23News & Politics

What drove Syrians to rise up and overthrow a brutal dictator? ‘Days of Love and Rage’ by Anand Gopal is an intimate account of how one town in Syria joined a revolution. The book took him 8 years to report and write. Th...

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