I Was In Syria During Bashar Al Assad’s Election

Here’s what I saw in 2007.

Claire J. Harris
Nov 5 · 11 min read

I walked across the stretch of land that divided Turkey and Syria — a line drawn after World War 1 and the fall of the Ottoman Empire. This artificially constructed border, determined by the war’s winners, turned the people living in the town of Nusaybin into Turks, and their neighbours living in the near identical town of Qamishle into…

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Claire J. Harris

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Global wanderer. Expert thumb-twiddler. Travel writer, screenwriter and copy writer. Find me at www.clairejharris.com.

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