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Alawites and the Fate of Syria
… late 2010 and swept across Libya and Egypt—finally reached Syria, people from various religious and ethnic backgrounds … the regime of Bashar al-Assad, the “elected” president of Syria. The unrest resulted from a combination of … that had been building for years and that affect especially Syria’s large rural population. The drought of 2007-2010, …