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Robin Yassin-Kassab: Returning to Syria's Sea of Rubble

The ruins stretched for mile after mile. We drove on over dust to what had once been the suburbs of Damascus.

Jul 03, 2026
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The road leading to the Ghouta suburbs from central Damascus, just after the fall of the Assad regime, 2024. (Photo by Alex Martin Astley)

By Robin Yassin-Kassab

Robin Yassin-Kassab is a British Syrian writer and journalist and the author of The Blood Between Us: Syria After the Fall of Assad, recently published by Saqi Books.

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