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‘Israeli peace’ not a silver bullet for the Levant

Arab News 31 Mar 2025
The decades that followed brought tensions and understandings between the rulers of Damascus and Beirut, until Hafez Assad succeeded — with regional and international approval — in imposing Damascus’ “hegemony” over Lebanese decision-making.
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From The Past Pages Of Dawn: 1975: Fifty Years Ago: Assad’s warning

Dawn 29 Mar 2025
Syrian President Hafez Assad warned the Arabs today [March 28] against what he called the “danger of fragmentation” and the “calamities and tragedies” it could lead to ... “Fragmentation is one of the left-overs of imperialism,” Assad said.
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Israel’s Druze Strategy Part of a Bigger Plan to Fragment the Middle East, Says Jumblatt

Watan 28 Mar 2025
When asked about the arrest of Ibrahim Hawija—the former head of Syrian Air Force Intelligence under Hafez al-Assad and accused of killing his father—Jumblatt said he does not intend to request his extradition.
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Most Syrian Armenians have left the country, while those remaining are in fear

Agos 28 Mar 2025
That year, they returned to Aleppo but left again in December 2024 following the fall of the Assad regime ... The Armenian community maintained a positive relationship with both Hafez and Bashar al-Assad.
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Jumblat accuses Israel of exploiting Druze minority in Syria

Naharnet 27 Mar 2025
Kamal Jumblat, who founded the Progressive Socialist Party and opposed Assad's father Hafez over his troops' intervention in the Lebanese civil war, was killed near the Syrian border in 1977.
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This Ramadan, relief and hope bump against violence and uncertainty in the new Syria

Chatanooga Times Free Press 26 Mar 2025
Now, for example, many celebrate freedom from dreaded Assad-era checkpoints ... On a government building, the faces of former presidents Bashar and Hafez Assad are partly cut off from a painting; in their place, "The Freedom" is scribbled in Arabic.
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After the Massacre: The Syrian Coast, Absent Justice, and a Future Suspended

The Syrian Observer 25 Mar 2025
The Assads, ... Hafez al-Assad understood the rural psyche intimately ... But rather than deliver on that promise, Assad repurposed their pain ... But Assad’s manipulation did not stop at political exploitation.
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Can One Man Hold Syria Together?

The Atlantic 24 Mar 2025
Seven weeks had passed since he stunned the world by conquering most of Syria in an 11-day blitzkrieg that put an end to the 55-year dynastic rule of Bashar al-Assad and his father before him, Hafez al-Assad.
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‘Planes, planes, planes’

Arab News 24 Mar 2025
... what remained of the arsenal of Bashar Assad’s army ... No one imagined that the jets would cause Assad to flee and Al-Sharaa to appear from the palace where Hafez Assad and his son used to sit.
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Initiatives to beautify Damascus: Coloring the pain

Enab Baladi 24 Mar 2025
29 years under Hafez al-Assad and 24 years under his son Bashar were sufficient to change the country’s features, both aesthetically and architecturally, and to alter its image in the eyes of onlookers.
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Thousands of Syrian Kurds celebrate first post-Assad Nowruz

The New Arab 21 Mar 2025
Under the Assad regime, Nowruz was heavily restricted and official recognition came in 1988 under Hafez al-Assad, but only after it was linked to Mother’s Day to dilute its political significance.
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The Tragedy of Syria

Dissident Voice 21 Mar 2025
In the ensuing years, Syria continued to struggle for national unity, agrarian reform, and modernization under the 30-year presidency of Hafez Al-Assad ... In 2011, protests against Assad’s rule were co-opted by foreign security services.
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Too Good to Check: Did Egypt Offer to Relocate Gazans?

Hot Air 21 Mar 2025
Color me skeptical, although not entirely dismissive -- yet ... Advertisement ... The Jordanians defeated them militarily and ejected them into Syria, where Hafez Assad had to fight them and eject them into Lebanon ... Advertisement ...   ... Advertisement ... .
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Kurds prepare for different Nowruz celebrations in Syria

Enab Baladi 19 Mar 2025
After local and popular pressures, as well as crises that occurred on this day due to the Kurds’ attachment to their fest, Hafez al-Assad issued a decree in 1988, making this day an official holiday in Syria, but linked it to Mother’s Day.
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‘Legal rights do not automatically translate into liberation in an unequal society’—An Interview with Historian ...

Jurist 17 Mar 2025
Hafez al-Assad, the father of Bashar al-Assad, was deeply influenced by Michel Aflaq, the intellectual architect of the Syrian Ba’ath movement and its vision of Arab nationalism and republicanism.
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