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Recommended reading
A Marine in Syria - Silhouettes of Beauty and Coexistence before the Devastation, Brad Hoff

Bashar al-Assad: How an ophthalmologist became the “Slaughterer of Damascus”, Janine Volkova

Syria: The hidden massacre, Sharmine Narwani

Why Syrians support Bashar al Assad, Tim Anderson

Deconstructing the NATO Narrative on Syria, Eva Bartlett

US Senator: "We Have Never Done Anything More Loathsome or Despicable Than What We're Doing in Syria.", Interviews with Senator Richard Black, May/July 2016

Cesspool of Lies: Western Media and the Toxic Fantasy, Ziad Fadel

Ignored By Western Media, Syrians Describe the Nightmare the Armed Opposition Brought Them, Rania Khalek

Recommended viewing
2010: First Lady Asma Al-Assad speaks at the Academie Diplomatique in Paris, France https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySlT5un6Ddg

"9 Days - From my Window in Aleppo" short film about events in August 2012, when the "rebels" came to town https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THdMj0-LmRw

"Manufacturing Dissent" - a documentary by Lizzie Phelan and Mostafa Afzalzadeh from 2012, about the role the media played in creating the "Syrian crisis", in "the West" as in Syria itself. Actor Mohamad Rafea, interviewed prominently in the film, was kidnapped, tortured and murdered later that year by "rebels". The film was posthumously dedicated to him. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtYvDCEKKTY

The honorable Bashar al-Ja'afari, Syrian ambassador to the UN, speaks about his view of the "Syrian Crisis" in September 2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3LTTbOYVfU

Humor: A techno remix of a small Ukrainian-Syrian anti-Putin protest and an even smaller old-east-German-lady pro-Putin protest a couple of meters away from each other at the Bundeskanzleramt in Berlin during his visit on October 19, 2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yW75v98K_04

Eva Bartlett interviews Syrian comedian Treka after the liberation of Aleppo, Ghouta and Deraa in late September 2018 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j75W8OGa9T4