Dina Shahrokhi is research associate at the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University in Houston. https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/contributor/dina-shahrokhi/rss en Civil Society Mon, 03 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Dina Shahrokhi https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/community/2013/06/03/searching-for-syrias-che-guevara https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/community/2013/06/03/searching-for-syrias-che-guevara Last week on Syria Deeply, Jenan Moussa argued that Syria has “no Joan of Arc” – no woman who has taken a leadership role in the revolution. Even bigger than the potential gender gap is that Syria has no charismatic leader – period. Nobody in Syria symbolizes or personifies the revolution. Syria has no Che Guevara.