Suweida, Syria’s Stalingrad: Khouloud Zghair on Identity, Exile and the Collapse of a Shared State

Suweida, Syria’s Stalingrad: Khouloud Zghair on Identity, Exile and the Collapse of a Shared State

The Syrian researcher and poet Khouloud al-Zghair believes that the violence in Suweida has exposed a crisis far deeper than political rivalry or regime change. In her view, the events in the southern province have laid bare the failure to build a political order capable of accommodating Syria’s religious, ethnic and regional diversity. What has ruptured, she argues, is not merely the authority of a state, but the very meaning of belonging. Iden…