Syria has become a breeding ground for anti-rational memes. Take, for instance, the song "I am an Arab Muslim," which surged in popularity post-Assad. It glorifies the Umayyad Caliphate ...

President Bashar al-Assad ruled his country with an iron fist for 24 years, as his father had done for 30 years before him. When he appeared to prevail in Syria’s civil war, it was widely ...

This was President Bashar al-Assad's answer to mostly unarmed protests that began in 2011. Many who rose against Assad then, are still here. That's the Zidane family. Mohammed Saeed Zidane (in ...

Syria’s iron-fisted leader Bashar al-Assad is the second generation of an autocratic family dynasty that held power for more than five decades and his disappearance amid a lightning rebel ...

When Bashar al-Assad was toppled in December, the iconography of posters, billboards and statues emblematic of his family’s brutal decades-long grip on the country also came down. The images of ...