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Yassin Swehat

Spanish-Syrian Journalist, co-founder and edito-in-chief of Al-Jumhuriya.

Syrian Students in the Maze of German Universities Yassin Swehat · April 2019 Seven hundred thousand Syrian refugees live in Germany, more than half of whom are under 25 years of age, according to the German Office for University Exchanges. What do they face when they seek to enter university, those whose studies have been interrupted by the revolution and war?
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Syria and Egypt: Surprising Analogies Yassin Swehat · November 2018 Despite the supposedly opposing political systems in place in Egypt and Syria since the 1970s, the two countries have developed similar economic reforms, particularly since the 1990s. In both cases, and beyond the differences, they allowed the elites to strengthen themselves, and the (...)