When Bashar al-Assad’s government collapsed, the dominant international narrative was one of return. Refugees, it was said, would come home. A postwar Syria would begin rebuilding. What has drawn far less attention is a quieter movement in the opposite direction. Across Syria, members of minority communities are preparing to leave. Fourteen months after Assad’s fall, departure has become the clearest verdict many Syrians are rendering on the country’s transition. For ethnic and religious