Killing Society. Why did the regime suppress the civil response to the earthquake?
12 October 2023
This article focuses on the events of the initial five days after the earthquake and the response initiated by the Syrian civil society, which played a crucial role in absorbing...
Protests in Sweida: From First Bread to Last Freedom
09 October 2023
The Governorate of Sweida, with its various towns and villages, has been witnessing widespread protests, demonstrations, strikes, and sharp statements opposing the ruling regime for over a month and a...
Intersex representation in Syrian Television Drama
06 October 2023
Fadi Saleh sheds light on the portrayal of intersex persons in Syrian drama at a time when LGBTIQ+ issues were not as present in political and cultural scenes as they...
An Earthquake for Nothing?
25 September 2023
The Levant and Turkey have always been subjected to a regularity of tremors. This retrospective reads old and new dynamics of political failure in the face of disasters. But also...
Internal Forced Migration in Syria Before and After the Earthquake
08 September 2023
The devastating earthquake in northwestern region of Syria was not the first earthquake or catastrophe to disrupt and shake the infrastructure and social fabric of the population there over the...
The failure of the emergency humanitarian response
25 August 2023
Prior to the earthquake, the United Nations described the humanitarian response in Syria as one of the most complex emergency responses in the world. The continuation of this response for...
That time when they found me dead
18 August 2023
On the 10th of August 2013, Syrian authorities arrested leftist activist, journalist and rebel Jihad Muhammad. He has not been heard from since. Untold Stories, alongside Jihad's friends, comrades and...
The Arts of the Earthquake
11 August 2023
Syrian Artists turned towards creativity in the face of the February 6th earthquake catastrophe. The different ranges of themes they addressed show particularly the reality of the Syrian people prior...
The Mobilization Act: Law outside the Law
10 August 2023
“The explosive barrels that we heard about, I transported them in my truck on the return trip... I’m not a participant in that crime. I was forced to do it. I...
"Their whole world crumbled before their eyes"
07 August 2023
Already having challenges to access assistance pre-earthquake – as Syrian children have fewer opportunities to be integrated into Turkish kindergartens – and with schools closed for several weeks in a...
Solidarity is still alive among Syrians
04 August 2023
At the time of the earthquake catastrophe, Syrians came again together. They crossed the conflict-made borders to help and support each other’s. Hate speech disappeared from the social media. Civil...
The sense of grief and loss at the destruction of one’s home
01 August 2023
By comparing the sense of loss that an earthquake in Southern Italy in 1980 and the destruction of the city of Homs by the conflict in Syria caused, the two...
Cities in Revolution
Documenting the history of the uprising in six different syrian cities
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