A bookseller shows a volume that was reportedly banned during the rule of Syria's ousted president Bashar al-Assad — LOUAI BESHARA Books recounting torture in Syrian prisons or texts on radical ...

The government of Bashar al-Assad made the media in Syria a tool of its propaganda. It arrested and intimidated writers and journalists who opposed the official line. Books were censored and ...

As writer Nilantha Ilangamuwa points out in his just-released book After Assad: Is Syria the New Libya in the Mediterranean?, these statements should come as no surprise given the military and ...

Books recounting torture in Syrian prisons or texts on radical Islamic theology now sit openly in Damascus bookstores, no longer traded in secret after iron-fisted ruler Bashar al-Assad's ouster.