Are you horrified by what Bashar Al Assad, the president of Syria, is doing to his own people? Bombing civilians, burning cities and neighborhoods to the ground, killing babies by the thousands, turning millions of Syrians into refugees? When I tell you about his father, you may have to forgive him, for ruthlessness and the determination to hold on to power at all costs is his inheritance. It has been ingrained in him since birth. His father, … [Read more...]
A.E. Sawan
A.E. Sawan was born into a Christian family on the outskirts of Zahle in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley. By the age of 12, he and his family had been forced to move five different times because of the country’s shattering civil war (1975 to 1990). Detained and tortured on several occasions by both the Syrian Army and the Palestinian Liberation Army (PLO), he eventually became a counter-terrorist operative specializing in diffusing bombs. Having survived … [Read more...]
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