A brief history of al-Raqqah city

Excerpts from Annika Rabo's Change on the Euphrates (1986)

Below are two excerpts from Swedish anthropologist Annika Rabo’s doctoral dissertation Change on the Euphrates: Villagers, townsmen and employees in northeast Syria (1986), which examines changing social relations in al-Raqqah city and its rural periphery during the economic transformations of the late 1970s. These excerpts offer an overview of al-Raqqa…