Syria’s dismemberment: fulfilling the French Mandate’s vision?
Could the neglected strength of the mainstream Muslim community – a vestige of the Ottoman self-governing ethno-religious millet system – hold Syria together as it did nearly 100 years ago and prevent its dismemberment into a number of mini-states?
Professor Dawn Chatty writes on openDemocracy about the irony of British cooperation with the armed opposition in Syria.
Image: Distant View of Damascus. Credit: Flickr Commons/OSU Special Collections and Archives
