Prof. Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick Writes Op-Ed for Aljazeera
Struggle Over Aleppo's Story Takes to the Skies
By Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick, writer and professor at the Kroc School of Peace Studies and AlHakam Shaar, research fellow for The Aleppo Project at the School of Public Policy at Central European University.
New technologies open new windows for political action. They give new tools to the powerful and their challengers. In the Syrian city of Aleppo, the struggle to frame the conflict for the international community ran parallel to the battle for control over the land itself.
While drone footage from Russia Today showed videos of rebel-held and heavily-bombed eastern Aleppo, Syria's Ministry of Tourism published footage of the city's intact western half, complete with the soundtrack from HBO's hit show Game of Thrones. The contrast was stark. Life with the regime was normal. Life with the rebels was hell.
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