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Anand Gopal on a Syrian town’s experiment in democracy amid a brutal civil war, through which it fought off the regime and the fundamentalists—and dared to hold an election.
Anand Gopal is a contributing writer at The New Yorker and the author of “ No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes.”
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Anand Gopal on a Syrian town’s experiment in democracy amid a brutal civil war, through which it fought off the regime and the fundamentalists—and dared to hold an election.