In Syria, the Caged Bird Raps

In Syria, the Caged Bird Raps

In Syria, the caged bird raps. On my first night imprisoned, I began to write: I am certain, after the long night there will be light.The jailer will collapse, and the prison will fall. That was 2012. Thirteen years later, my certainty arrived. The Al-Assad dynasty ruled Syria for 54 years, from 1970, when Hafez al-Assad orchestrated a coup d’état and cemented his dictatorship over what became known as the “kingdom of silence,” and through the r…

Has the Syrian revolution triumphed with the fall of Assad's regime? What we have been witnessing since December 2024 is a successful revolution, even if the path has been long and tortuous? This question is of conceptual importance, because it requires a thorough understanding of the nearly fourteen years that have elapsed in Syria between the beginning of the revolution and the collapse of the regime. It also has a political weight, because th…