How did a hated Alawite get to be president of a Muslim Syria?

If some Syrian Alawites think they are Muslims, I can be forgiven for having thought that too. Isn’t that curious? That many Alawites born after 1971 in Syria make that mistake? How did that happen? And how did a member of a non-Muslim minority get to be president of a Muslim country? * * * […]

Yusef, an Alawite Syrian who escaped the atrocities

All I did was introduce myself as an Israeli journalist and Yusef (not his real name), who wants the plight of the Alawites to be told to the world, quickly typed out a story that began thus: They are killing us only because we are Alawite. Most of us are very poor people. After Assad […]

Ethnic cleansing in our neighbour just north of us

Just north of us there is ethnic cleansing going on at this very moment. I have been put in touch with a few Alawite individuals who I am interviewing to bring their stories to my readers. I sent the first of the articles to a man for him to check that nothing that I wrote […]