DEIR SHMAYEL, Syria — In the mountains east of Syria’s Mediterranean coast, armed patrols root out Assad loyalists, masked gunmen monitor checkpoints and residents fret every strange face could be an ...
Dubai: With Bashar Al Assad’s ouster in November last year, the fate of Syria’s Alawite community remains precarious. Once ...
(The Conversation) — A scholar of religious minorities and the Middle East explains the historical persecution and marginalization of the Alawite and Druze communities. (The Conversation) — In July ...