‘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...
Thoughts on exile in Germany
17 July 2021
We aren’t really over there, and we aren’t here either, struggling to find any satisfactory formula to solve the problem of our roots. We don’t understand what to do with...
Remembering the Syrian revolution through song
09 April 2021
Because this generation has lived through historical turns of events, we are both lucky and unlucky at the same time. The outburst of the Arab Spring revolutions and the songs...
Popular Oral Culture and Sectarianism, a Materialist Analysis
31 October 2018
Joseph Daher offers a materialist perspective after reviewing the contributions to SyriaUntold's special series on Oral Culture and Identity in Syria.
Racism, Sectarianism or Sexism? On Damascus and the Syrian Demographic Barcode
03 October 2018
What distinguishes lines in the barcode is not only their length, but also their width and the distance between them. For example, a middle-class rural family may be closer to...
On Memorizing the Fatiha
14 September 2018
The feeling that we were guests in our own country and that we had to respect the system in place which provided protection for Christians never left us.
