'No More Fear': Stand-Up Comedy Returns to Post-Assad Syria
This is Beirut, 2024-12-26 11:15 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
In post-Assad Syria, stand-up comedians are re-emerging to challenge taboos, mocking the former president and his regime and even testing the waters with Damascus's new rulers. Melki Mardini, a performer in the Syrian capital's stand-up scene, is among those embracing newfound freedoms. "The regime has fallen," he declares from the stage, ...