# The collapse of Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria?

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**Created:** [December 7, 2024, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-collapse-of-bashar-al-assad-regime-in-syria/1011314 "2024-12-07T18:51:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2025, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-collapse-of-bashar-al-assad-regime-in-syria/1011314/81 "2025-01-03T13:44:09Z")

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Syria seems to be making all of the right steps to good publicity and preventing a more progressive face. I know, maybe I’m too cynical. Congrats to her and all of the enormous challenges she’ll face ahead.

> **[New Syrian government appoints woman governor of southern province](https://www.yahoo.com/news/syrian-government-appoints-woman-governor-141721080.html)**
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> The Islamist-dominated transitional government in Syria has appointed a woman as the governor of the southern province of Suwaida, the Syrian News Agency (SANA) reported on Tuesday. Muhsina al-Mahithawi, a member of Syria's Druze minority, has been...

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**Author:** ![chappachula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@chappachula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chappachula)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2025, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-collapse-of-bashar-al-assad-regime-in-syria/1011314/82 "2025-01-03T15:54:23Z")

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> [@Love\_Rhombus](#):
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> all of the right steps to good publicity and preventing a more progressive face.

I assume you meant “presenting”.  
But unfortunately your typo is likely to be more accurate, like a true Freudian slip.  
The new rulers of Syria are introducing a new curriculum in schools, to satisfy strict Islamic doctrines.

> **[Syria: New government's school curriculum changes spark concern](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1ln12056ppo)**
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> The curriculum will take on a more Islamic slant, with evolution and Big Bang theory dropped from science.

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**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2025, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-collapse-of-bashar-al-assad-regime-in-syria/1011314/83 "2025-01-03T15:55:49Z")

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> [@chappachula](#):
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> I assume you meant “presenting”.  
> But unfortunately your typo is likely to be more accurate, like a true Freudian slip.  
> The new rulers of Syria are introducing a new curriculum in schools, to satisfy strict Islamic teachings.

Dangit!

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