The fall of dictator Bashar al-Assad in Syria, in December 2024, completely unexpectedly extended a late success to the Syrian Spring that began in 2011. Thus, new opportunities seem to keep emerging after all, while elsewhere in the region ruthless wars and dictatorships continue to prevail.
What have today's Arab twenty-somethings, still children in 2011, learned from their predecessors? Do they see their future hopeful at home or does emigration threaten to remain the only real way out, as happened in Lebanon after the mega-crisis since 2019? What is the plan? ‘Arab Spring 2.0’ explores the new fault lines of a crucial region in crisis.
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