Description
Thirteen years on, the Syrian Uprising is still framed in a sectarian term; Sunni vs. Alawite holy war. Particularly in the western academic discourse which tends to look at Syria from a very orientalist lens portraying Syrians as groups of Alawite and Sunni struggling to eliminate each other. Certainly, the Uprising invoked vehement identity clashes which swung the four-decades old identity balance. Nevertheless, on the other hand, the 2011 Uprising seems to subject Syrian national identity to a continual process of reconstruction. This presentation will examine the characteristics of this process.
