Oxford Literary Festival - The Future of Syria After Assad

Allaf is a Damascus-born writer, political analyst and former associate fellow at Chatham House. In It Started in Damascus: How the Long Syrian Revolution Reshaped Our World, she explains how Syrians are grappling with a freedom fight many decades old. Allaf says Bashar Assad betrayed the hopes of Syrians that he would be an agent of change when he succeeded his father. She asks whether a new power in Damascus can forge the change that Syrians have been dreaming of for a quarter of a century.