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  • The Fragile Balance between Justice and Reconciliation in Post-Assad Syria
    Emanuele Valenti 2 January 2026
    “They arrived without warning and began killing people based on a single question: ‘Are you Sunni or Alawite?’ If you answered Alawite, you were dead.” Nine months on, Samir, 68, still struggles to talk about what happened last March in Baniyas, a town on Syria’s Mediterranean coast where hundreds of people were killed—almost all from the Alawite community, which until a few months earlier had been the Assads’ core base of support. Across the wider region, at least 1,500 people were killed.
  • Preserving God from the Blasphemy of Violence
    Alberto Melloni 8 February 2016
    Are religious wars in the Middle East today comparable with the 16th and 17th century’s European religious conflicts? Asks Alberto Melloni from the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. Has violence among Muslims simply been covered by the political system of the Empire and is now asking for its own place in the scene of history? Or is there, on the contrary, a new violence in this area between Sunni and Shia, Alawites and Wahhabis? 
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