{"id":74389,"date":"2026-04-20T10:34:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T10:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/74389\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T10:34:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T10:34:12","slug":"a-memoir-of-awakening-rebellion-and-survival-in-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/74389\/","title":{"rendered":"A Memoir of Awakening, Rebellion, and Survival in Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During her early life\u00a0Loubna Mrie was loyal to the Assad family who had ruled Syria for decades.\u00a0Mrie comes from an Alawite family &#8211; a historically marginalised group from a coastal region in what is a highly sectarian country.\u00a0She grew up believing the Assad regime protected this community. But as the Arab Spring reached Syria in 2011, she became curious about the growing opposition to the brutal regime.<\/p>\n<p>She went to an anti-government protest in Damascus &#8211; in secret &#8211; and witnessed a massacre.\u00a0After this bloody awakening, she became a political actor.\u00a0Now a photojournalist and author, her memoir\u00a0A Memoir of Awakening, Rebellion, and Survival in Syria, traces her upbringing.\u00a0Including life under a father who worked for the Assads and day to day life in an authoritarian society.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/4JQ1A44_Loubna_jpg.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"832\" alt=\"Loubna Mrie's memoir Defiance is a raw account of surviving Syria\u2019s civil war.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nLoubna Mrie&#8217;s memoir Defiance is a raw account of surviving Syria\u2019s civil war.<br \/>\nPhoto:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During her early life\u00a0Loubna Mrie was loyal to the Assad family who had ruled Syria for decades.\u00a0Mrie comes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[30],"tags":[1982,1981,42,475,1980,1978,1979,95],"class_list":["post-74389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-syria","tag-audio","tag-current-affairs","tag-news","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz","tag-syria"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116436589916255168","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}