Ammar Abdulhamid in NYT Magazine Profile

Ammar Abdulhamid, the Syrian human rights activist profiled yesterday on this blog, is the subject of an article in today's New York Times magazine. Read the whole thing, but note also this quote from Abdulhamid on his return to Damascus after several months at a DC think-tank:

''When I arrived at the airport,'' Abdulhamid says, ''I was told I had to go to political security. It took me some time to find out exactly which security apparatus wanted to speak to me, but then I met with them for two days in a row. I was very up front about my activities and even talked about things they didn't know yet, like an article I had co-written with an Israeli. One of my interrogators told me that what I was doing would have been unthinkable a few years ago, and he's right. I got the sense from even some of the security police that they see there has to be a new way of doing things in Syria.''

Perhaps. The jury is still out on Abdulhamid's fate - and on the fate of his efforts to promote minority and civil rights in a region that has too often trampled over them.

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