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.

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.