What happened when Syria's conservative new leaders tried to shut 60 Damascus bars
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Damascus may be ’safer’ but Homs is a microcosm of lawlessness
On a cold February night, a group of friends in the Syrian city of Homs gathered beside the heat of a steel furnace, sipping Yerba mate, a popular drink of South American origins. They were meeting at Harmony, a grassroots peacebuilding initiative, a space in which they say they felt more protected than in their neighbourhoods. The mood was somber. Hours earlier, a young woman was walking alone in her neighbourhood, Wadi al-Dhahab, when an arme…
What happened when Syria's conservative new leaders tried to shut 60 Damascus bars
When Syria's new leaders shut 60 Damascus bars, drinkers protested, and the government reversed itself. It's an example of the tussle between secular and Islamist values in the new Syria.
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