The Future Will Not Be Spray Painted

“It was an incendiary political idea — suggesting that Syria’s Baathist dictatorship would be the next to fall after the Arab Spring revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt, written by an apolitical teenage prankster. Painted on a cool and dry winter evening, it would improbably set in motion a chain reaction of events that continue to rock the Middle East – and the world.” From Mark MacKinnon in The Globe and Mail: The Graffiti Kids Who Sparked the Syrian War.