Alex Rowell
@alexjrowell.bsky.social
Senior editor at @newlinesmag.bsky.social. Author of "We Are Your Soldiers: How Gamal Abdel Nasser Remade the Arab World" (2023) and "Vintage Humour: The Islamic Wine Poetry of Abu Nuwas" (2018). https://linktr.ee/alexrowell
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January 6, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Thanks so much, means a great deal to hear
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Just finished and I am so grateful you wrote it. What an amazing book, putting together an incredible overview of events in the Middle East during Nasser’s time and beyond. Illuminating is the word, and it really reads like a thriller. Couldn’t recommend it more
January 5, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Just finished and I am so grateful you wrote it. What an amazing book, putting together an incredible overview of events in the Middle East during Nasser’s time and beyond. Illuminating is the word, and it really reads like a thriller. Couldn’t recommend it more
Thank you so much, hope you enjoy it!
January 4, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Thank you so much, hope you enjoy it!
Syria's "new" flag today, then, is actually its old flag - its first flag as an independent republic. Richly symbolic to see it once again replace the UAR flag, as it did in 1961.
Hoping parliamentary democracy once again replaces dictatorship - and that, this time, it lasts.
Hoping parliamentary democracy once again replaces dictatorship - and that, this time, it lasts.
December 11, 2024 at 12:50 PM
Syria's "new" flag today, then, is actually its old flag - its first flag as an independent republic. Richly symbolic to see it once again replace the UAR flag, as it did in 1961.
Hoping parliamentary democracy once again replaces dictatorship - and that, this time, it lasts.
Hoping parliamentary democracy once again replaces dictatorship - and that, this time, it lasts.
That democratic interlude was short-lived; in March 1963, Baathists (and Nasserists) put an end to it with a military coup that led ultimately to Hafez al-Assad's rule. Hafez restored the UAR flag in 1980, and it remained the Assad regime's flag until this month.
December 11, 2024 at 12:50 PM
That democratic interlude was short-lived; in March 1963, Baathists (and Nasserists) put an end to it with a military coup that led ultimately to Hafez al-Assad's rule. Hafez restored the UAR flag in 1980, and it remained the Assad regime's flag until this month.
When the authoritarian union led by Nasser collapsed in 1961, and Syria became an independent parliamentary democracy once again, it reverted to its previous flag (below), adopted by the Syrian Republic since independence in 1946, up until the union in 1958.
December 11, 2024 at 12:50 PM
When the authoritarian union led by Nasser collapsed in 1961, and Syria became an independent parliamentary democracy once again, it reverted to its previous flag (below), adopted by the Syrian Republic since independence in 1946, up until the union in 1958.