{"id":9191,"date":"2026-01-26T16:53:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T16:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/?p=9191"},"modified":"2026-01-27T17:05:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T17:05:53","slug":"syria-connections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/2026\/01\/26\/syria-connections\/","title":{"rendered":"Syria Connections"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An important piece:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"bluesky-embed\" data-bluesky-uri=\"at:\/\/did:plc:gipupnl6zfjxlmptux55mvk5\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3mbolslgyjs24\" data-bluesky-cid=\"bafyreie4imv7f6nh7wa5bwfdz6ooo3yi7be4kks5iurblvzttdyldupkxa\" data-bluesky-embed-color-mode=\"system\"><p lang=\"en\">Thrilled to share my latest article: &quot;Keeping Syria connected during civil war.&quot;\n\nA compelling, years-in-the-making story of &quot;Mahmoud,&quot; a Syria Telecom network engineer who was on the front lines of the conflict\u2014literally\u2014to keep the country&#x27;s internet running.\n\nsyriauntold.com\/2025\/12\/27\/k&#8230;<br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:gipupnl6zfjxlmptux55mvk5\/post\/3mbolslgyjs24?ref_src=embed\">[image or embed]<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Doug Madory (<a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:gipupnl6zfjxlmptux55mvk5?ref_src=embed\">@eldomador.bsky.social<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:gipupnl6zfjxlmptux55mvk5\/post\/3mbolslgyjs24?ref_src=embed\">5 January 2026 at 13:57<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.bsky.app\/static\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An important piece: Thrilled to share my latest article: &quot;Keeping Syria connected during civil war.&quot; A compelling, years-in-the-making story of &quot;Mahmoud,&quot; a Syria Telecom network engineer who was on the front lines of the conflict\u2014literally\u2014to keep the country&#x27;s internet running. syriauntold.com\/2025\/12\/27\/k&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[165,264],"tags":[166,806],"class_list":["post-9191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syria","category-syria-internet","tag-syria","tag-syria-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9192,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9191\/revisions\/9192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}