Syria: The regime of looting and devouring corpses

Myriad are the horrors imposed on Syrians by the Assad regime over the years, throughout its decades in power. It is particularly frightening the amount of violence inflicted upon them (and upon the Palestinians of Syria) during the past seven years. It suffices to recount the names of cities and towns across the map of the country in order to bring to mind the massacres carried out in those places, and the instances of siege, starvation, displacement, torture and killing by barrel bombs or chemical weapons.

Du printemps avorté à la révolution d’octobre

Dans son ouvrage «Le printemps de Beyrouth n’aura pas lieu, Analyse de l’œuvre inachevée de Samir Kassir» (FSK, 2019), Julien Ricour-Brasseur explore le travail, l’engagement politique de l’intellectuel beyrouthin et certains épisodes de sa vie durant la décennie qui a précédé son assassinat le 2 juin 2005.