Samia Madwar

3 days ago | thewalrus.ca | Samia Madwar

WORLD / JUNE 2025What Would It Take to Rebuild Syria? BY SAMIA MADWAR Published 6:30, MAY 13, 2025The singing and clapping burst forth before the plane started moving. “Raise your head up high, you’re a free Syrian,” a group of passengers a few rows ahead of me chanted in Arabic. The song has become a classic in the months since the fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria last December.

Jan 16, 2025 | thewalrus.ca | Samia Madwar

Catherine Tsalikis began contemplating a biography of Chrystia Freeland in August 2020, when Freeland, already deputy prime minister, took on the role of finance minister. At the time, Freeland was seen as a leading contender to succeed Justin Trudeau as Liberal Party leader, with many assuming her rise to the top was only a matter of time.

Dec 10, 2024 | thewalrus.ca | Samia Madwar

T o be Syrian, it seems, is to live in disbelief. Even as I watched the news unfold overnight on Saturday and into Sunday morning that rebels had entered Damascus, Syria’s capital, and that long-time dictator Bashar al-Assad had fled the country, even as I learned Sunday morning that he’d officially resigned, and even as family members sent congratulatory messages, I didn’t know how to accept that the regime had finally fallen. It was a familiar sort of disbelief.

Apr 3, 2024 | msn.com | Samia Madwar

Continue reading More for You

Apr 3, 2024 | thewalrus.ca | Samia Madwar

When Sara Fung was hired as a clinical nurse specialist at a hospital near Toronto, she thought she was starting her dream job. Six months in, she was miserable. Every day felt like an episode of Survivor. “I had to find the right alliances,” she says, “or I was going to sink.” A manager Fung worked with was a bully, and the environment was generally hostile.