When Mahreb Al Hammoud first entered the People’s Council building in Damascus, he said he felt “pride.” This representative of the tribes of northern Syria is an influential figure in his region. His reception tent, pitched near the new courthouse in Aleppo – the second largest city in the country, in the northwest – is always full. More than a hundred visitors came to congratulate him after his first steps in the Syrian capital as a deputy, and even ask him to intercede in neighborhood or family quarrels.
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