Should Syrians start demanding the right to return while knowing that it is a far-fetched dream - according to the current status quo at least? Will the experience of building “New Ratyan” give birth to a new Ghouta, new Daraa, new Daraya, etc in northern Syria?
Read MoreI heard that cadres will question why families are getting calls overseas and I worry my family will be harassed so I did not contact them. Then we started having emoji conversations on WeChat.
Read MoreTo many like Alaa who have witnessed the brutality of the Assad regime first hand, what is happening in Syria is not just a war, but a revolution. He chuckles, visibly proud of the fact that the uninitiated eyes of Turkish art dealers can not locate the 'war' in his pictures. "How could it not be there, yani?" he muses. "It is a part of me."
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