tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22261571.post6138050227203372571..comments2024-03-20T01:06:12.181-04:00Comments on MEI Editor's Blog: Back to the Future? The French Mandate's Confessional Partition of SyriaUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22261571.post-73289082006199224382013-05-31T10:55:32.078-04:002013-05-31T10:55:32.078-04:00Thank you for that historical note. I bet many hav...Thank you for that historical note. I bet many have no idea there was a federal state in Syria or what components it had. I certainly did not know that. I was led to believe by Syrian historical dramas that Syria was a single, centralised state. Propaganda obviously. I should know better than to get my facts from tv, but then I wonder how this was portrayed in Syrian school manuals. <br /><br />I don't know how will communities live along each other let alone share power in a future Syria. Nationalism might have federated them in the past, I guess it won't be as powerful a sentiment in the future.Al Moxtarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09177613460901123727noreply@blogger.com