{"id":159465,"date":"2025-01-09T13:59:34","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T13:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/politics\/rewrite-this-title-in-arabic-joy-and-fear-syrian-refugees-ponder-what-2025-holds-for-their-homeland\/"},"modified":"2025-01-09T13:59:35","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T13:59:35","slug":"rewrite-this-title-in-arabic-joy-and-fear-syrian-refugees-ponder-what-2025-holds-for-their-homeland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/politics\/rewrite-this-title-in-arabic-joy-and-fear-syrian-refugees-ponder-what-2025-holds-for-their-homeland\/","title":{"rendered":"rewrite this title in Arabic \u2018Joy and fear\u2019: Syrian refugees ponder what 2025 holds for their homeland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic<br \/>\n        Thirteen years after a revolution left the Middle Eastern country in civil war and led to more than 6 million Syrians fleeing as refugees, dictator Bashar Al-Assad has been deposed. Euronews spoke to three refugees about their hopes for Syria in the coming year and their thoughts on returning.<br \/>\n    ADVERTISEMENTMaydani, Abdulrahman, and Ahmad were all students when protests erupted across Syria and the broader region in 2011. All three of them joined the revolution, all three were imprisoned, and all three were forced to flee.\u201cAfter two months of detention, I started to lose my balance. I had a very high temperature, and it was difficult to breathe because of the air in the detention centre and the amount of torture,\u201d Maydani told Euronews, calling conditions \u201cunbearable for a human or even an animal\u201d.Maydani recalls his release after months at a military prison in the Kafr Sousa district of Syria\u2019s capital Damascus. \u201cMy father helped get me out of detention. Otherwise, I would have become one of the unidentified corpses.\u201dEven after his release, Maydani was gripped by fear of re-arrest. \u201cThey put you in prison \u2026 and then they bury you in one of the mass graves and no one from your family can know about you, not even a word,\u201d he said. \u201cI hid at home under constant terror. I could never leave the house.\u201dIt\u2019s a sentiment echoed by Abdulrahman. \u201cWhen I got out of prison, I was always afraid to walk in the street so that they would arrest me, that they would take me to prison for no reason,\u201d he told Euronews. \u201cI felt that I was living in a prison, there was no freedom, no dignity.\u201dAhmad, released after three months \u201cin a miracle,\u201d said he \u201cwas advised to leave the country directly but wanted to finish university.\u201d Maydani also remained long enough to complete his studies. Abdulrahman left straight after he was freed.The journey outAfter fleeing Syria, Maydani, Abdulrahman and Ahmad all passed through multiple countries, notably Turkey, where Abdulrahman eventually settled along with the vast majority of other Syrian refugees \u2014 more than 3.3 million, according to UN figures.Maydani and Ahmad both made the perilous Mediterranean Sea crossing, which took over a week in Ahmad\u2019s case. While Maydani ended up as one of over 100,000 Syrian refugees in Sweden, Ahmad travelled from Italy to settle in Germany, which welcomed up to 850,000 Syrian refugees, by far the highest number of any European country.\u201cI&#8217;m really grateful for being here and for the German people who helped me,\u201d Ahmad said, smiling and adding he\u2019s had a \u201cvery, very positive\u201d experience in Germany, where he continued his studies, got married, and became a teacher. After teaching in Turkey, Abdulrahman joined the news agency Al Jazeera, becoming an editor.For Maydani, it was a trickier experience. \u201cThere was no one to teach us the laws, the language is different. What we studied, everything we accomplished in our lives meant nothing and we went back to square one.\u201d Having trained as a dentist, Maydani now lives with his wife and children and runs a taxi company while his partner is retraining as a dentist.None of the three were sure they would ever see the fall of al-Assad nor return to Syria. ADVERTISEMENT\u201cI never expected that anyone would be able to bring it down,\u201d exclaimed Maydani. \u201cThere was no unified leadership. Each faction leader wanted to be the president. I lost hope, frankly, and I stopped following the news\u201d.However, as the HTS-led rebel group launched a coordinated offensive and took Aleppo, Syria\u2019s second-largest city, this all changed. \u201cI was completely unable to concentrate, if someone greeted me, I would say hello, but I didn\u2019t listen. I was driving the car, and I hit the pavement, and the car\u2019s tyre was torn off, it broke,\u201d Maydani said.ADVERTISEMENTAbdulrahman was surprised, if less effusive. \u201cI had no hope that power would change in the near future. I was happy, of course. I was unable to eat or sleep well for a week.\u201dDespite his hopes, Maydani describes how \u201cthe fear was always there until the last moment.\u201d His family in Damascus \u201cwere afraid that there would be massacres, and the regime would throw explosives and burn Damascus and destroy it.\u201dHowever, when HTS officially took Damascus, they were happy. \u201cWhen they said on TV that the al-Assad regime has fallen in Syria, it made me feel happy as if I was feeling it for the first time. Every time I see this sentence, it\u2019s as if I\u2019ve just heard it for the first time,\u201d said Maydani.ADVERTISEMENTThe calm after, or before the storm?A month ago, the name Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS) was relatively unknown in international circles, as was that of its leader Ahmed al-Sharaa. Yet, since it has taken control of Syria, the organisation and its leader\u2019s chequered past have been put under the spotlight.Originally formed as a merger of multiple Sunni conservative \u2018Islamist\u2019 rebel groups from northwestern Syria in 2017, HTS was soon designated as a terrorist group by multiple countries and organisations, including the UN, the EU, and the US, who regularly launched airstrikes against it.Its leader, al-Sharaa, is an ex-al-Qaeda fighter who adopted the nom de guerre Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, a reference to his native Golan Heights, which has been under Israeli occupation since the 1967 war. Since marching to victory in December, HTS has been trying to play down its controversial past and present itself as inclusive and moderate. In a recent interview with the BBC, Al-Sharaa talked of reaching out to Syria\u2019s minorities, who make up over a quarter of the population, including Christians and Alawites.ADVERTISEMENTHe also insisted he supported women\u2019s rights. &#8220;We&#8217;ve had universities in Idlib for more than eight years, I think the percentage of women in universities is more than 60%,&#8221; he said, referring to the province HTS has controlled for years. Not everyone is convinced. A group of more than 300 Syrian women sent a letter to UN General Secretary Antonio Gueterres stating, \u201cwe do not accept the stark absence of women leaders in the transitional government or to be excluded from international discussions.\u201dSpeaking to Euronews, Cambridge University academic and former UN lawyer in the region Victoria Stewart-Jolley was even more blunt. \u201cThe government which has taken over is pretty much the same as the Taliban,\u201d she said. \u201cNobody believes they&#8217;re going to be moderate.\u201d ADVERTISEMENT\u2018We are at the beginning\u2019Ahmad and Abdulrahman both recognise the fears around HTS, with Ahmad admitting he was hopeful but \u201ca little bit worried\u201d about developments. \u201cI did not support the HTS\u2019s ideology and I used to see it as harmful to the Syrian revolution,\u201d Abdulrahman said, but insisted, \u201cnow its ideology has changed\u201d.He maintains that HTS won\u2019t be given free rein. \u201cWe are giving HTS a chance for three months to run the country, but after three months there will be elections for the government, for the presidency.\u201d Shortly after the BBC interview, al-Sharaa suggested elections could take up to four years.ADVERTISEMENTMaydani also worries that the civil war isn\u2019t over because proxies continue to back local groups, including the US-backed Kurds to the north. However, his mood overall is buoyant. \u201cI am very happy, and until now Ahmed al-Sharaa is doing a very good job for the country.\u201dOn the possibility of returning to Syria, all three plan to return in the coming weeks to visit for the first time and believe \u201cmillions\u201d of refugees will return eventually to Syria. About 70% of Syrian refugees still live in poverty. However, none have immediate plans to relocate, given the 13 years of civil war that have ravaged the country. \u201c70% of Syria is destroyed, entire neighbourhoods, entire areas, all the buildings are destroyed, completely unfit for life. So, if these people return, where will they live,\u201d Maydani asked.Ahmad also pointed out that many refugee children left Syria before they could really feel rooted. \u201cThey don&#8217;t have any memories \u2026 they don&#8217;t have any idea about the country,\u201d he said.ADVERTISEMENTYet these aren\u2019t insurmountable issues, according to Maydani. \u201cIt needs time, we are here now at the beginning,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic Thirteen years after a revolution left the Middle Eastern country in civil war and led to more than 6 million Syrians fleeing as refugees, dictator Bashar Al-Assad has been deposed. 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