As anthropologist Lila Abu-Lughod has argued in her book, Do Muslim ... a 13-year-long civil war and 61-year-long authoritarian rule. There is not a single Syrian family I know that has not ...

DARAYYA, Syria — The children of Darayya, scattered across Syria by war, grew up with secrets: why only their mothers ever came to the school gates; that their fathers had been killed ...

Her husband, in turn, was detained during the first years of the Syrian civil war. She would later learn that Assad’s government had executed her husband in prison. Now Assad was gone.

On Dec. 8, after nearly 54 years in power and 13 years of war, the Syrian civil war came to an end. And with it, the fall of the Assad family’s rule. For many Syrian students who call the University ...