Rebellion against the Authority of Tales
23 May 2024
The tales we cherish from childhood linger in the recesses of our subconscious, molded by the potency of words and their influence, shaping our understanding and solidifying our perspective on...
Samar Haddad: Books are freedom and reading is what frees us
22 April 2022
We met with Samar Haddad, the woman at the helm of the historic Dar Atlas publishing house in Damascus. Since the 1950s, Dar Atlas has published, among other things, what...
‘The pamphlet’
10 January 2022
Over the course of a year in the 1970s, a group of Syrian leftist poets and short story writers gathered to publish an underground literary zine, clandestinely printing at university...
Fares Helou: Resistance through art
16 December 2021
"There is no doubt that we Syrians have experienced the existential question—Who are we today?—especially after our social rupture and scattering across all corners of the globe. In our search...
