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Politics & Power

Issue 30 – December 2025

Islamists versus Islamists

The Muslim Brotherhood’s return to Syria threatens confrontation with Sharaa

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Issue 28 – September 2025

Rubber-stamp revival

Syria’s new parliament might be more of the same

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Issue 27 – August 2025

New Age Salafism

Syria’s embrace of obedience over jihad

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Issue 26 – July 2025

Angry Sunnis

President Sharaa’s base is beginning to ask awkward questions

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Issue 26 – July 2025

Proxy vote

In Syria’s troubled transition, a weak legislature may be better than none at all

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Issue 25 – June 2025

The Necessary Leader

He may not be ideal, but he can deliver

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Issue 24 – May 2025

Syria’s phantom institutions

Promised state overhaul has delivered the illusion of government

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Issue 23 – April 2025

The New Umayyads

Syria’s leaders is turning nostalgia into strategy

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Issue 22 – March 2025

Swallowing the State

HTS is fashioning Syria in its own image

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Issue 21 – February 2025

Syrian Opposition RIP

An obituary

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Issue 20 – January 2025

The new deep state

How Al-Sharaa is consolidating power

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Issue 19 – December 2024

The quasi-coup

Assad is gone but the deep state lives on

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Issue 15 – August 2024

Regime in transition

How Assad is embracing change to maintain the status quo