Schooled by Dictatorship

An autobiographical account of Diala, an artist, and Bassel, a journalist. After fleeing the war that ravaged their native Syria, they meet in Paris and recall their childhood in Bashar al-Assad's quasi-military schools, their adult ambitions stifled by the corruption of the ruling clan, then shattered by civil war—by the violence of the regime as well as that of ISIS and its propaganda. A powerful warning about the indoctrination of children under war and dictatorship.

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