Syria: From revolution to riches - L'Orient Today

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A motorcyclist passes in front of a building damaged during the Syrian civil war, in Harasta, a suburb of Damascus, Syria, on May 28, 2025. (Credit: Matthieu Karam/L’Orient-Le Jour) Born in 1961 in Raqqa, Yassin al-Haj Saleh is a Syrian writer, essayist, and political dissident. Arrested in 1980 due to his involvement in the communist opposition, he spent sixteen years in the prisons of Hafez al-Assad's regime. After his release, he became one of the major intellectual voices of the Syrian revolution of 2011. Far from the beaten path, his writings offer a particularly innovative analysis of au…