Syrian Illusion of Emmanuel Macron

CONTRIBUTION / ANALYSIS. The images of Syrian President Ahmed Al-Charaa's big-pump reception in the Elysée court have caused a lot of ink to flow. Beyond the symbol, a complacent media narrative according to which the new masters of Damascus would be on the verge of normalization, on the benches of the school of democracy. Historian Jérôme Maucourant, specialist of Syria and Lebanon, recalls the reality of the current Syrian power, from its orig…