How to Defeat Authoritarianism | Bashar al-Assad's Syria
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How to Defeat Authoritarianism | Bashar al-Assad's Syria

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 28, 202654 min

In 2000, Bashar al-Assad became president of Syria, also known as the authoritarian "Kingdom of Fear" that his father Hafez al-Assad had created three decades earlier. The younger Assad continued and intensified the use of imprisonment, torture and surveillance as tools of domination. His crackdown on a pro-democracy revolution turned into a 13-year civil war. Nahlah Ayed and panelists discuss what we can learn about the rise and collapse of authoritarianism from Assad’s rule and the 2024 collapse of his regime. Listen to other episodes in our series, How to Defeat Authoritarianism: <p...

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