This story is adapted from writer Emily Wither’s recent Rest of World feature, Syria’s quest to build its own Silicon Valley.
For the first time in a long time, Syrian entrepreneurs are hopeful.
The country’s nascent tech scene was put on hold in 2011, when protests against the regime of Bashar al-Assad during the Arab Spring were met with extreme force. Over the next decade, a brutal civil war quickly drew in government forces, rebel groups, Islamist extremists, and foreign…

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