“This is my parent’s house”

11 November 2025
Through the story of his family’s house and farm occupied by government troops in Dama, the author recalls the good relationships between Druze and Bedouin tribes in the Sweida province...
The sin of surviving: losing your baby in a massacre

06 November 2025
Nawal tried to breastfeed him, but the milk dried up in her chest. "I was so terrified that the milk stopped. My son was getting weak and I couldn't feed...
My short odyssey in the (new) Syrian security branches

26 August 2025
After years in exile, a human rights activist goes back to Syria, where she is summoned to a security facility to testify about an old regime perpetrator.
For Five Days, Sweida’s Soul Was Crushed—Its People, Homes, Crops, and Livestock... and So Was Mine, Trapped in Berlin

04 August 2025
Following a brief initial visit after the fall of Assad’s regime, Syrian novelist Najat Abd al-Samad, based in Berlin, was preparing for a longer return to her hometown, Sweida. But...
Testimonies of Survivors of the Coast Massacre (6) .. Mothers Searching for Their Children’s Bodies

24 April 2025
Beginning on Thursday, 6 March 2025, and lasting for six days, Alawite-majority areas along the Syrian coast were subjected to a coordinated attack that bore the hallmarks of ethnic cleansing....
More

This work is under a Creative Commons license. Attribution: Non commercial - ShareAlike 4.0. International license

Illustation by Dima Nechawi Graphic Design by Hesham Asaad