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Book: Arabic Learning in Context

Chapter: No Destruction! We Want Reforms!

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.41817

Blurb:

Introduces the eruption of the popular uprising in Daraa, Syria, in which government security agents of President Bashar al-Assad arrest and torture children who painted anti-Bashar graffiti on school walls. Popular protests erupt. Invented characters recount their first-hand views of this historic event, offering opinions about the root causes and potential direction of the newly emerging movement.

Chapter Contributors

  • Abdelkader Berrahmoun (berrahmounabdelkader@gmail.com - aberrahmoun) 'Middlebury Institute of International Studies, Monterey, California '