Gareth Browne

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The Intelligence from The Economist · A firm Andy: what are new British PM’s plans? · 20 Jul 2026 podcast

In Damascus, which is going to open.

It's been rebuilt by the Qataris.

Their reconstruction efforts have started.

Saudi efforts have got a bit more stuck in the country's bureaucracy.

But most interestingly, is the last couple of months, the UAE, which was, as I said, quite standoffish, has now really started to engage with Damascus.

You have entrepreneurs from Dubai and Abu Dhabi, big construction firms all talking about huge projects.

And

I think the general understanding in Damascus and indeed the region is it's gonna be these Gulf states that do a lot of the rebuilding of Syria.

There has been some there have been some deals signed by French companies, some American firms are sort of poking around Syria's oil bills.

So there's plenty of interest, but these bombings, they allow that seed of doubt in the minds of big Western firms like Chevron to grow.

And that's not an uncertainty that Syria needs at all at the minute.

It needs all the outside help it can get.

Well I think at the moment Alshara is the right person by default.

There's not really another national figure who could maybe

pull this all together and I don't think we can take his survival for granted.

There's been a number of assassination attempts.

But I think it's key to look at Syria in the regional context now.

We have a region, in particular the Gulf, that has experienced for the last fifteen years Syria as a failed state, where it's become a haven for drug trafficking, the export of international terrorism, and it's been a disaster for pretty

Pretty much everyone, not least Syrians.

And I think there is a consensus in the region that that can't be allowed to happen again.

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