Still Romanticizing Masculinity?
22 January 2025
Decades of authoritarianism and 14 years of war have entrenched militarized identities, posing challenges for true inclusive citizenship and the reimagining of national belonging, writes Dr. Rahaf Aldoughli. In this...
"It was a Ghost Army"
17 January 2025
Many questions have been raised around the rapid military operations leading to the fall of the regime and their background. Now that the country has been liberated, the current military...
“People Need to Know What Happened”
03 January 2025
Syrian journalist and former political prisoner Ruwaida Kanaan, now living in Paris, France, shares her reactions after the fall of the regime. A co-plaintiff in the Koblenz Trial, she says...
When they Opened the Prison Doors
30 December 2024
A conversation with Noura Ghazi, international lawyer and executive director of Nophotozone.
The Virtual ISIS Prisons Museum
15 November 2024
As ISIS collapsed in Syria and Iraq, a team of journalists, researchers, and activists attempted to access the organization's numerous prisons in search of friends and colleagues who had been...
"Waiting" against my Will
05 November 2024
It’s rare to find a sculptor who voluntarily destroys a massive work that he spent months creating, transporting from place to place, and restoring. Yet, the Syrian sculptor Khaled Dawwa...
A Previously Unpublished Interview with Father Paolo
26 August 2022
At the end of 2012, Waseem Hasan met Father Paolo on the sidelines of one of the opposition conferences and recorded an interview with him of which only partial segments...
