Books in Syria after the fall of the regime
23 June 2026
On the "withdrawal" of Assad-era books from libraries and the perplexing censor at the borders.
How Can Philosophy Become a Way of Life?
08 November 2024
"The Fate and Destiny of Darwish" is the title of a recently published book by "Mu'minun Bila Hudud" (Believers Without Borders), which examines the life and intellectual journey of the...
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...
