Quizat, YallaGo, and BeeOrder are leading Syria’s tech revolution after Assad

This story is adapted from writer Emily Wither’s recent Rest of World feature, Syria’s quest to build its own Silicon Valley.

For the first time in a long time, Syrian entrepreneurs are hopeful.

The country’s nascent tech scene was put on hold in 2011, when protests against the regime of Bashar al-Assad during the Arab Spring were met with extreme force. Over the next decade, a brutal civil war quickly drew in government forces, rebel groups, Islamist extremists, and foreign…