Leila Al-Shami
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Leila Al-Shami
@LeilaShami
Co-author of 'Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War', Pluto Press
Co-founder @FromPeriphery
@[email protected]
leilashami.bsky.social
Joined June 2015
- A friend messaged that Syrian state TV is now playing Swan Lake on repeat
- Regardless of your shitty geopolitical analysis. Regardless of legitimate fears for the future. If you can't celebrate the collapse of one of the most brutal police states in history & liberation of prisoners from torture dungeons, then there is something wrong with your politics
- This is Latakia yesterday. Supposedly the regime's 'heartland'. How beautiful to see these scenes.
00:00 - Protest in Damascus today calling for a democratic, secular & civil state
- Syrians in Syria and around the world are celebrating the collapse of a regime which has brutalized them for decades. It's non-Syrians who seem to be most upset by Assad's fall (something we knew all along)
- In the town of Sahnaya, in the Damascus countryside, Syrian Christians are celebrating the fall of the regime. "One, one, one, the Syrian people are one" they chant
00:00 - The photo on the left went viral in 2016, as the couple were forced out of Aleppo when the regime took control of the city. Today they return 💚
- With Assad gone from their cities, many Syrians can and will return home. This means civil activism will increase drastically. The road is not easy, and there are many challenges ahead, but for the first time in a long time we can dream of building a free Syria once more.
- My timeline is filled with videos showing Syrians cleaning their neighbourhoods, re-painting buildings & planting trees across the country. This is the spirit of the revolution. Syrians will together re-build their country, one they can take pride in. Video is from Deraa
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