The downfall of the Syrian regime is an important event in the history of the Middle East. Syria is the keystone of Arab identity. It’s where the Arab Awakening (Nahda) began at the end of the Ottoman era, it’s where the leader of the Arab revolt, Faisal, placed the seat of his government at the end of World War I, and it’s where nationalism developed with the establishment of the Baath party in the 1940s.
