‘Writing on the wall’: How Syrian teen Mouawiya Syasneh’s 2011 graffiti led to Assad’s downfall 13 years later – Times of India
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The downfall of Syrian President Bashar Assad after the Syrian rebels took over the capital city of Damascus was already inked on a wall in 2011 by 14-year-old Mouawiya Syasneh's graffiti which said: "Ejak el door, ya doctor" (It's your turn, Doctor).“If we had known what would happen, we’d never have written that graffiti,” said Mouawiya Syasneh in The Boy Who Started The Syrian War, an Al Jazeera documentary.“We saw what was happening in Egypt and Tunisia,” he said and added, “So we got together at school, took some paint and sprayed the walls. We wrote on the school wall, ‘Your turn next, Doctor (Assad).’ A few days later the police saw what we’d written and rounded up the boys in the neighbourhood.”The Boy who started the Syrian War | Featured DocumentaryHowever, their act of...