Adam Zeidan
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Adam Zeidan is an Assistant Managing Editor, having joined Encyclopædia Britannica in 2018. He covers a range of topics related primarily to the Middle East and North Africa.
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Ahmed al-Sharaa is a militant Islamist who became president (2025– ) of Syria’s interim government after leading the lightning offensive in 2024 that toppled the dynastic Pres. Bashar al-Assad. He commanded one of the leading factions of the Syrian Civil War (2011– ), known as Hayat Tahrir al-Sham…
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