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...
On the anniversary of the Syrian uprising, where does the country’s independent media stand?
18 March 2022
The past decade has seen Syrian alternative media and journalists become the main source of information for what is happening in their country. They live-streamed their pain, their struggles and...
WHO rewards the Syrian regime for its atrocities
18 June 2021
Last month, Syria was elected to the WHO’s Executive Board. The body chose a regime that succeeded in destroying a nation's healthcare system, displacing its practitioners, weakening its capacity to...
The Syrian story: From unity to fragmentation
23 April 2021
The regime’s lie of reform revealed itself amid increased violence against protesters. And as foreign forces, both with and against the regime, joined the equation, two narratives started to emerge....
Denmark is revoking residence permits from Syrian asylum seekers. This didn’t come out of nowhere
19 April 2021
As it turns out, the decision to revoke residence permits has less to do with the question of whether Damascus is safe and more to do with the question of...
A decade on, how can we work to free Syria’s detainees?
16 April 2021
In decades past, mothers in Aleppo had a spell to unleash the voices of children suffering from alalia—speech delay. Can we apply their ritual today?
‘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...
