There have been plenty of questions in recent years regarding the possible social, political and cultural futures of the Syrian state. Here, writer Hassiba Abdel Rahman charts the history of...

In Baathist Syria, the interplay between loving and belonging to the nation, measured by the readiness to sacrifice and die, constructed an image of the heroic man as the ideal...

Throughout the 20th century, the Arab world has always found itself operating either within an Islamist or nationalist framework. Despite political conflict between the two - sometimes even bloody -...