My father served this monarchy with loyalty, believing that for all its faults as an autocracy, it was modernizing, socially liberal, and politically reformable: the very antithesis of the Islamic Republic.
Syria's new president struggles to unify a divided nation overshadowed by violence and sectarian strife, facing challenges beyond just personal charisma.
Living and Learning in the Shadow of the Paris Commune
"These banal outrages are entryways into the realm of the class politics we most often confront; they are sites from which we can begin to ponder who and what controls the levers of power in our daily lives."