Syria’s civil society navigates post-Assad era: Partnership or control?
- Damascus, Syria – For most of the war, Bahjat Hajjar worked outside the Syrian state.
- A co-founder of the Local Administration Councils Unit, he spent years between Turkiye and opposition-held northern Syria, supporting councils that ran bakeries, clinics and schools where no government existed.
- Today he sits inside the state, as deputy minister of social affairs and labour – the ministry that licenses Syria’s associations.
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- Damascus, Syria – For most of the war, Bahjat Hajjar worked outside the Syrian state.
- A co-founder of the Local Administration Councils Unit, he spent years between Turkiye and opposition-held northern Syria, supporting councils that ran bakeries, clinics and schools where no government existed.
- Today he sits inside the state, as deputy minister of social affairs and labour – the ministry that licenses Syria’s associations.
Sources: Al Jazeera