Nationalize all private and foreign assets and gradually devolve them to worker control wherever possible, guarantee equal legal rights for all religious/ethnic groups, establish a massive development project for poorer/more rural areas of the country, end discriminatory policies against women and homosexuals, form wide-scale propaganda campaign promoting equality and acceptance. It would either be a smashing success or go down in flames.
The Arab/Islamic world had its brief flirtation with Marxism-Leninism in the form of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen.
Syria, in fairness, has actual natural resources besides sand.
