Bashar Hafez al-Assad
Know for: Acting
Born: 1965-09-11
Place of birth: Damascus, Syria
Also know as:
Republic of Silence (2022)
They grew up in the land of dictators and surveillance, where images are censored, photos are burned, thoughts are discreet, and mouths are kept...
Entretien politique : Histoire et mode d'emploi (2020)
HyperNormalisation (2016)
We live in a world where the powerful deceive us. We know they lie. They know we know they lie. They do not care. We say we care, but we do nothing,...
Russia, China, Iran: The Axis of Revenge (2024)
Russia, China and Iran: three former empires are determined to take their revenge and reassert their power after centuries of humiliation. Since the...
Bitter Rivals: Iran and Saudi Arabia (2018)
Bitter Rivals illuminates the essential history - and profound ripple effect - of Iran and Saudi Arabia's power struggle. It draws on scores of...
Frenemies: Putin and Trump (2020)
Russian President Vladimir Putin was one of the first politicians to congratulate Donald Trump on his election as president of the United States in...
Black Box Syria: The Dirty War (2020)
A look back over nine years of the Syrian Civil War, an inextricable conflict, like a black box, due to the competing interests of the many factions...
Lebanon in Crisis (2020)
The apocalyptic blast in the Port of Beirut, Lebanon, on August 4, 2020, exacerbates anger at those in power: protests cross religious boundaries as...