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1) This heart-wrenching tale of the unraveling of modern-day Syria capturing the developments (or not so) from the dawn of the 20th century to Syria a…more
1) This heart-wrenching tale of the unraveling of modern-day Syria capturing the developments (or not so) from the dawn of the 20th century to Syria as we know it today, war-torn. Isn’t this eerily similar to how the Holocaust was carried out?
2) Who would remember the Syria that was, and who would be there to greet its new dawn and dream it a better future?
3) But what are humans if not ambitious?
4) Have we really advanced as a species?
5) Were waves of expulsion, migration, refuge, and exile just the natural course of things--no tragedy greater or less than another? Was permanence only every illusory?
6) How will any new Syria accommodate all the Syrian people?
7) With no passport, had Malek's cousin wanted to apply for asylum, how could she?
8) Lamya detested the fact that, to equalize the education available in private and public schools, the new government had decided to eviscerate private education rather than improve public schooling. Doesn't this happen to some effect here?
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