Enrico De Angelis
Independent researcher specialized on media in the Arab world. He holds a PhD from University of Salerno, Italy. He wrote several articles on media and communication in the MENA region and a monograph on media and conflict. He is one of the founders of SyriaUntold and collaborated as a consultant with different NGOs and media organizations. He currently works as a media researcher for Free Press Unlimited and lives in Berlin.
Land, revolutions and lessons from Syria
04 May 2021
“At the revolution's core was the question of self-determination. To what extent can individuals and communities choose how to live on their land, to exercise their power?”
Science fiction in MENA: An artistic tool for change
26 April 2021
How it is possible to think about the future, and not only in dystopian terms, when one already lives under repressive authoritarian regimes, in a war or under occupation?
‘Palmyra syndrome’: What are Syrians allowed to speak about amid war and revolution?
02 April 2021
The cultural clash in the aftermath of Palmyra’s 2015 destruction not only revealed the Western-centric outlook of many foreign Syria observers, but it also, perhaps more quietly, shed light on...
Journalism in Raqqa (IV): War, Reconstruction and Power Struggles
26 April 2019
In this four-part series Yazan Badran and Enrico De Angelis explore the media environment in northeastern Syria. The first three articles will analyse the media context of Rojava, and the...
