SYRIA’S ECONOMIC CRISIS: New pressure on the regime?

Food in Syria now costs 20 times what it did before the civil war and even bread is getting hard to come by. People may have endured ten years of conflict, but will this and increasing economic hardship put extra pressure on the Assad regime?

Ibrahim Olabi
Lawyer and Activist

Rahaf al Doughli
Middle East Politics Lecturer at Lancaster University

Sami Hamdi
Editor-in-Chief of the International Interest​


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