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Ali Abd Alatef

Ali Abd Alatef is a researcher and storyteller from Syria based in the United Kingdom. He holds an MA in Gender and Middle Eastern Studies. His master’s research examined NGOised gender activism, donor governance, and the discursive silencing of queer and trans lives in the Syrian conflict. His work focuses on critical discourse analysis, masculinities, and gender as a contested field of power and negotiation.

Syria, Masculinity, Umayyads, TV, Bab el Hara

From Bab al-Hara to the Umayyad Dream: How Nostalgia Shapes Syria’s New Moral Order

byAli Abd Alatef

January 13, 2026

From TV drama to self-Orientalizing political myth, Syria’s revivalist imagery performs purity, masculinity, and belonging while erasing plural histories and...

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From Bab al-Hara to the Umayyad Dream: How Nostalgia Shapes Syria’s New Moral Order

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