The month of March 2021 marks the anniversary of a stillborn Arab Spring: ten years after the first demonstrations against the regime of Bashar al-Assad, the latter is still at the head of a country ravaged by one of the worst wars of the 21st century.
Over the years, a myriad of analyzes, often discordant because sometimes more or less partisan, have been proposed to explain the Syrian chaos.
But Antoine Mariotti is driven by a concrete question, of a journalistic nature: what really happened on the ground, and how this factual reality was able to allow the Syrian raïs to remain in power?
Answering this question required speaking to all the actors in the conflict: Syrians of all stripes, diplomats, high-ranking political decision-makers, spies… This is the immense work undertaken by the journalist in his investigation. shame of the West, behind the scenes of the Syrian fiasco ", to be published on March 11 by Tallandier editions.
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