Since the outbreak of the popular uprising in Syria last spring, the media have focused on the Alawi minority which controls the levers of power in that country. Most often, one hears echoes of mainstream Sunni and Shi’i sources that Alawis represent a heretical or, at best, syncretic deviati..
Steve Tamari
Steve Tamari is an associate professor of Middle East History at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.