{"id":130423,"date":"2025-01-29T15:14:49","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T20:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/01\/29\/return-to-damascus-how-to-build-the-new-syria-2\/"},"modified":"2025-01-29T15:14:49","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T20:14:49","slug":"return-to-damascus-how-to-build-the-new-syria-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/01\/29\/return-to-damascus-how-to-build-the-new-syria-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Return to Damascus: How to build the new Syria?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>For exiled Syrians, this is their Berlin Wall moment\u2014the doors to a homeland they thought they\u2019d never see again suddenly swinging open. The heady days following December 8th and the fall of Assad\u2019s seemingly immovable regime have brought an unexpected Christmas gift: a return to Damascus.\u00a0But as the initial euphoria fades, clear-eyed Syrians know better than to declare, \u201cAnd they all lived happily ever after.\u201d The lessons of the Arab Spring loom large, and the challenges ahead are daunting. How to navigate a landscape shaped by heavily armed factions\u2014sometimes allies, sometimes rivals? What to do with thousands of civil servants and state security employees left unpaid since Assad\u2019s fall?\u00a0And as the international community moves to lift sanctions, the bigger question remains: how to channel money and efforts toward rebuilding a Syria that is not just revived, but reimagined.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For exiled Syrians, this is their Berlin Wall moment\u2014the doors to a homeland they thought they\u2019d never see again suddenly swinging open. The heady days following December 8th and the fall of Assad\u2019s seemingly immovable regime have brought an unexpected Christmas gift: a return to Damascus.\u00a0But as the initial euphoria fades, clear-eyed Syrians know better [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,20],"tags":[21,22],"class_list":["post-130423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-la-une","category-news","tag-monde","tag-world","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}