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Issue 36 – June 2026

Politics & Power

The Druze Supervillain

Attempts to securitise Suwayda are ill advised

Diplomacy

The logic behind the madness

Why Trump’s Middle East strategy is not new – and may even be working

Economy, Aid & Reconstruction

Free the loaves

Syria’s bread economy could benefit from gradual market liberalisation

Justice, Rights & Civil Society

Lessons in obedience

How Syria’s schools reproduced authoritarian rule beyond the classroom

Book Review

Romance and reality

A review of Robin Yassin-Kassab’s book ‘The Blood Between Us’

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