For more than half a century, the Assad regime strangled Syria — crushing commerce, silencing dissent, and driving millions into exile. Now, for the first time in generations, Syrians have the opportunity to imagine a free and prosperous country. “Free Syria: Syria’s Economic Renewal” follows Mazen Derawan, a Syrian-American entrepreneur who returns to Damascus in the immediate aftermath of the regime’s collapse. Guided by a conviction that lasting prosperity flows from individual liberty — not state control — Mazen and a team of fellow libertarians from across the Middle East and North Africa join together to revive the traditions of free exchange that once made Damascus a crossroads of trade, ideas, and human flourishing. What he finds is a society both liberated and scarred: markets reopening, families reuniting, a country rediscovering what it means to own your future.
