What Would It Take to Rebuild Syria? | The Walrus

After fourteen years away, I returned to a home I barely recognized

WORLD / JUNE 2025 What Would It Take to Rebuild Syria? After fourteen years away, I returned to a home I barely recognized BY SAMIA MADWAR Published 6:30, MAY 13, 2025 A war-torn building in Jobar, a suburb of Damascus (Samia Madwar) --> T he singing and clapping burst forth before the plane started moving. “Raise your head up high, you’re a free Syrian,” a group of passengers a few rows ahead of me chanted in Arabic. The song has become a classic in the months since the fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria last December. A few passengers-some draped in Syria’s new flag, a symbol of ant

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