The Existential Challenge for Syria’s Alawites

The Existential Challenge for Syria’s Alawites

The week of March 6-12, 2025, will live in infamy in the Alawite psyche. Over those days, Alawite communities across 56 villages along Syria’s Mediterranean coast came under a brutal assault, leaving thousands of civilians dead or missing. Attackers looted everything they could carry — phones, jewelry, cash, water pumps, cars, livestock — and set homes ablaze. Vast swaths of the Alawite mountains were scorched either by incendiary artillery shel…

Our world seems to have become a world of existential vacuums, of lack of meaning, where the gap between the individual and his reality has become wide, and that walking on the sand of punctured memory has become extremely dangerous, especially in social relations, those relationships that have turned into an empty clock in the kitchen of his walls naked of colour, and their father. Today, we are witnessing terrifying scenes, heartbreaking scene…