False Optimism Regarding Syria
Featuring Ahed Al Hendi and Hadeel Oueis
Date: August 6, 2025
Time: 12 o’clock noon
Ahed al Hendi and Hadeel Oueis from the Center for Peace Communications, takes us further into a deeper dive into the true facts of what is actually taking place on the ground in Syria. There has been mass slaughter of ethnic minorities at the hands of President Ahmed al-Sharaa, Come and find out what is happening to the Druze, the Kurds, the Christians and the Alawites. Here are the facts, and a prescriptive remedy on how we in the United States can assist the Syrian ethnic minorities.
About Our Speakers:
Ahed is a senior fellow at the Center for Peace Communications, has written for Foreign Affairs, and has worked with Advancing Human Rights and the Extremist Watch Desk at Voice of America.
Hadeel Oueis is the director of Arabic Communications at the Center for Peace Communications. She majored in law and, in 2011, at the age of 18, was arrested by the Assad regime for her key role in the early days of the Syrian protests. In 2012, a U.S. delegation in Geneva met with Oueis and facilitated her relocation to the United States. She now analyzes U.S. policies in the Middle East for major Arabic networks and has reported extensively on the Jews of the Middle East for various Arabic publications.