The Housing Crisis in Post-Assad Syria

The Housing Crisis in Post-Assad Syria

Ramadan left Syria in May 2011, at the age of 24, before he had completed his studies at Damascus University. He returned to the Syrian capital in December 2024, two weeks after the fall of President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, following 13 years in exile.  He went into exile as a student and a former detainee at the General Intelligence Directorate’s notorious Branch 251, also known as al-Khatib Branch, silenced by state surveillance and repressi…