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Emran Feroz is an Afghan-Austrian journalist currently based in Stuttgart, Germany. He is regularly writing from Afghanistan, often focusing on the Middle East, Central Asia, drone warfare, refugee policies and human rights. Emran is writing in both German and English. His work has already appeared in international media outlets such as Al Jazeera, The Intercept, Alternet, The Atlantic or the New York Times and in various German and Austrian news papers and magazines.
"Why Would Assad Do It?"
The war in Syria has become the source of many myths, propagandistic narratives and conspiracy theories. Especially in the wake of chemical attacks and other atrocities perpetrated by the Assad regime and its allies, a crowd of people – among them journalists and intellectuals – have appeared and asked why the dictator would have done it.
This also happened after the April chemical massacre in Douma as this article points out:
"In essence, the theories that circulated questioning the Assad regime's responsibility for the April chemical attack on Douma rest on two core claims: Firstly, that the Assad regime has been ‘winning the war’, and hence has no need to deploy chemical weapons; and secondly, that the attack ‘conveniently’ came after a US declaration that it was withdrawing from the conflict. Here, the rebels would benefit from such an attack if it brought intervention against the regime."
The author goes further and successfully deconstructs these narratives.
