Peter Bergen

Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad belongs to the small Alawite sect and is therefore considered a heretic by many Sunnis; al-Assad runs a secular regime, and therefore he is considered by Sunni militants to be an apostate, and he is inflicting a total war on his Sunni population.

American Journalist

Syrian refugees fleeing to Europe do not go through anything like the rigorous process experienced by those who are coming to the States, and the volume of Syrians fleeing to Europe is orders of magnitude larger than it is to the United States.

Walid Jumblatt

Syrian influence has not ended yet. It is going to be a very long path.

Lebanese Politician

The term 'Syrian' can imply regional aspects of culture, cuisine, and tradition specific to Syria.

Region Specific

Discussions about 'Syrian' may often involve topics like war, politics, and refugees.

Political Importance

Be aware that references to 'Syrian' can evoke strong emotions due to recent historical events.

Cultural Sensitivity

Remember 'Syrian' can denote ethnicity, not just the nationality of someone from Syria.

Ethnicity Vs Nationality

Consonant 'y' in 'Syrian' is pronounced as /iː/, like the 'ee' in 'seen'.

Pronunciation Clue

Don't assume all Syrians share the same beliefs, religion, or support the same politics.

Avoid Assumptions

 they can't be swept aside even with the best of intense so let's explore through a couple of examples the impact that technologies built to drive human-computer symbiosis have had in recent time in October 2007 US and coalition forces raided an al Qaeda safe house in the city of Sinjar on the Syrian border of Iraq they found a

The rise of human-compute...

 is a young syrian dentist from aleppo turned blogger and activist and like many young syrians she chose to express her activism not just by protesting in the street but by trying to play an active role in public life and when I met her earlier this year the first

Reclaiming Syria’s story...

 mona is is one of those grandmothers who's very involved in her grandchildren's life mona idris is a syrian refugee hannah met in hattai turkey