• Syrian literature is modern fiction written or orally performed in Arabic by writers from Syria since the independence of the Syrian Arab Republic in 1946...
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    entities – the Syrian Interim Government, Syrian Salvation Government, and Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria – have emerged in Syrian territory...
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    armed rebel groups such as the Free Syrian Army began forming across the country, marking the beginning of the Syrian insurgency. By mid-2012, the crisis...
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    various Syrian-mandate states, Mandatory Palestine and the Emirate of Transjordan. The Syrian-mandate states were gradually unified as the State of Syria and...
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  • Mohammad Al Attar (category Syrian literature)
    Mohammad Al Attar (Arabic: محمد العطار; born 1980 in Damascus, Syria) is a Syrian playwright and dramaturg who lives in Berlin. His plays have been performed...
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    present. Salim Barakat, a Syrian émigré living in Sweden, is one of the leading figures of the genre. Contemporary Syrian literature also encompasses science...
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    the ongoing Rojava conflict and the wider Syrian civil war, in which its official military force, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), has taken part. While...
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    Syria) Jacobite Syrian Christian Church (Syriac Orthodox Church in India, Catholicosate, based in Kochi, Kerala, India) Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church...
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  • originated in northeastern Syria became known under its regional (Syrian/Syriac) designation (Suryaya). In English scholarly literature, the term "Syriac" is...
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    On the Syrian Goddess (Greek: Περὶ τῆς Συρίης Θεοῦ; Latin: De Dea Syria) is a Greek treatise of the second century AD which describes religious cults practiced...
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    who live in the region of the modern state of Syria, and their descendants born outside Syria. Syrian Jews derive their origin from two groups: from...
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  • Mahjar (category Syrian literature)
    encounter with the Western world and participated in the renewal of Arabic literature, hence their proponents being sometimes referred to as writers of the...
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    of Isaac the Syrian is a collection of homilies on the topic of Christian asceticism and prayer, written c. 688 by Saint Isaac the Syrian, which comprise...
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    Antoun Saadeh (category Syrian Social Nationalist Party in Lebanon politicians)
    the Syrian Social Nationalist Party. Saadeh was born in 1904 in Dhour El Choueir, in the Mount Lebanon Mutasarrifate. He was the son of a Syrian Greek...
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    Ephrem the Syrian (c. 306 – 373), also known as Saint Ephrem, Saint Ephraim, Ephrem of Edessa or Aprem of Nisibis, was a prominent Christian theologian...
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    the Syrian Desert have been referred to separately such as the Palmyrene desert around Palmyra, and the Homs desert. The eastern section of the Syrian Desert...
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    Syrian nationalism, also known as Pan-Syrian nationalism (or pan-Syrianism), refers to the nationalism of the region of Syria, as a cultural or political...
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    history of Syria covers events which occurred on the territory of the present Syrian Arab Republic and events which occurred in the region of Syria. Throughout...
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    they are notable and identify themselves as Syrian, naturalized as Syrian, or were registered at birth as Syrian. Elagabalus – Roman emperor Severus Alexander...
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  • Zakaria Tamer (category Syrian Muslims)
    Tamir, is a Syrian short story writer. He is one of the most widely read and translated short story writers of modern Syrian literature, as well as one...
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    Moroccan literature Oman literature Pakistani literature Palestinian literature Persian literature Qatari literature Saudi literature Syrian literature Tunisian...
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  • Cheers to You, Nation (category Syrian literature)
    Cheers to You, Nation (Arabic: كاسك يا وطن) pronounced "Kasak Ya Watan" is a Syrian, sociopolitical tragicomic play performed in 1978. Starring the famous Arab...
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    Colette Khoury (category Syrian women novelists)
    al al-Khuri, Colette Khuri) is a Syrian novelist and poet, born in 1931, who is also the granddaughter of former Syrian Prime Minister Faris al-Khoury....
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    Syrian cuisine is a Middle Eastern cuisine that includes the cooking traditions and practices of Syria and the culinary culture of its inhabitants. Syrian...
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    Syrian Americans are Americans of Syrian descent or background. The first significant wave of Syrian immigrants to arrive in the United States began in...
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    Oriental Orthodox faction includes the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church and the Jacobite Syrian Christian Church, resulting from a split within the Malankara...
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    identified the church as the "Syrian Church". The English term "Syrian" was used to describe the community of Syriacs in ancient Syria. In the 15th century, the...
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    Party – Syria Region (Arabic: حزب البعث العربي الاشتراكي – قطر سوريا Ḥizb al-Ba'th al-'Arabī al-Ishtirākī – Quṭr Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Regional...
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    Omar Youssef Souleimane (category Syrian male writers)
    Al-Qutayfah near Damascus, Syria), is a French-Syrian journalist, poet and literary writer. In 2011, he had to flee Syria for his political views and...
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    The Syrian Social Nationalist Party (SSNP) is a Syrian nationalist party operating in Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and Palestine. It advocates the establishment...
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