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TED Talks: Season 2016

2016x132 Marwa Al-Sabouni: How Syria's architecture laid the foundation for brutal war
TV-PG

  • 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z on YouTube
  • 15m
  • United States
  • English
  • Documentary
What caused the war in Syria? Oppression, drought and religious differences all played key roles, but Marwa Al-Sabouni suggests another reason: architecture. Speaking to us over the Internet from Homs, where for the last six years she has watched the war tear her city apart, Al-Sabouni suggests that Syria's architecture divided its once tolerant and multicultural society into single-identity enclaves defined by class and religion. The country's future now depends on how it chooses to rebuild.
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