Sparks of hope and rage in the tragedy
“In 2011 the Arab world exploded out of any possibility of Orientalist stereotyping,” Yassin-Kassab remarks in his otherwise perceptive essay, “the image of the Arab as a pawn, a passive victim of religion or empire, necessarily collapsed.”
If the worst thing to be said about Syria Speaks is that it exudes residual optimism, that's no bad thing.