Only now, with ruler Bashar al-Assad forcibly ousted last December, can Sarout's singing be played publicly in Syria. Children, some born during the revolution and who memorized his lyrics in ...

F or decades, schoolchildren began their day with a song of praise to Hafez al-Assad, “our eternal leader.” He died in 2000. He was succeeded by his son Bashar, who received similar praises ...

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A banner held up in the hall read, “It is Syria the Great, not Syria the Assad.” One of Maasarani’s best known songs is “Jabeenak ’Ali w Ma Bintal,” which he first sang in 2012 ...

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "YA ALLAH") UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: ... of course, the regime of Bashar al-Assad has fallen. Malek Jandali joins us now from New York. Thank you so much for being with us.

She was born two years after Bashar Al-Assad’s father, Hafez Al-Assad, assumed power in 1971 and lived in Syria until 1998. “We lived in the city of fear, in the country of fear,” she said ...

Revolutionary songs like those by Maasarani and Abdelbasset Sarout — a Syrian singer and activist who died in 2019 — played a key role in rallying Syrians during the nearly 14-year uprising ...