Samer Aboud
Associate Professor of Global Interdisciplinary Studies at Villanova University; author of Syria (Polity, 2018) focusing on Middle East politics and Syrian conflict
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Jun 26, 2026
Marc LynchHOST
And so it creates this profound kind of vulnerability for people who are caught up in that process.
Samer AbboudGUEST
What I try to book is that a lot of the property appropriation started at the, I mean, even the municipal level.
Samer AbboudGUEST
So if you think of the geography of the conflict, I mean, we're not talking about governorates that go from one side to the other.
Samer AbboudGUEST
And when the battlefield shifted in favor of the regime, a lot of the municipalities started specifically targeting FUZ and people who are from those areas.
Samer AbboudGUEST
They started specifically targeting them to steal their, to kind of appropriate their property.
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