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Agenda Item: The Great Syrian Revolt

The Land of a Thousand Civilizations, the Pearl of the East, the home of Damascus, the oldest continuously inhabited capital in the world, now stood at the mercy of imperial powers who saw the entire region as nothing more than a prize to be claimed. The Arabs had already witnessed what those powers were capable of after the secret carving of the Middle East, infamously negotiated in secret through the 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement, and their broken promises of support in the McMahon–Hussein Correspondence.

But let's focus on the present: It is now 1920, and the San Remo Conference formally handed Syria over to the French under the League of Nations Mandate system, disregarding the will of its people. But the sons and daughters of this land were not ones to bow to foreign rule. From the halls of Damascus to the mountains of the Druze, leaders from every corner in Syria put their religious, territorial, and political divisions aside in the name of resistance.

In this committee, you are one of them. As leaders, rebels, thinkers, and fighters, you have been called to decide Syria’s future. Will you take up arms and ambush the occupier? Or will you extend an olive branch and shake their hand for a peaceful resolution? Will you seek vengeance for betrayals of the past, or will you forge new alliances, trusting they won't betray you again? The future of this nation is at stake, and every decision you make will alter not only this noble uprising, but the future for years to come.

Will the next generation of this land speak the language of their ancestors, or that of their occupiers?Study Guide