"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...
Scenes from the disasters. Qardaha and its countryside
27 July 2023
The region around Qardaha, in north-west Syria, did not attract much media attention in the aftermath of the earthquake. Qardaha is well known among Syrians as the hometown of the...
The Socio-Economic Ramifications of the February 2023 Earthquake in Syria
19 July 2023
High inflation rates, price hikes of basic goods, unemployment, lack of economic policies and loss of income: the earthquake added to more than a decade of devastation, leaving Syrian citizens...
February 6th Earthquake: How do we understand what happened and where are we today?
14 July 2023
Five months after the disaster, testimonies and observations both from regime-controlled and opposition-held areas in northwestern Syria, heavily affected by the earthquake, reveal structural mismanagement, lack of capabilities and limited...
Feminism in Algeria: Struggles Against the Lack of Continuity in a History Unknown to Most
11 July 2023
From the war of independence to the 2019 popular movement, the intersectional feminist Amal Hadjadj reflects on the history of feminism in her country, Algeria. New and older generations’ different...
The extraordinary creative power of Hair
30 June 2023
In this selection of artworks, in collaboration with Mena Art Gallery, the curator Claudia Avolio invites the readers to visually engage with the connections, manifestations and thoughts behind and beyond...
Chez the Maidenly Madam. A contemporary queer theatre play
20 June 2023
Chez the Maidenly Madam is a contemporary Syrian queer play that centralizes queer characters and raises important questions about authority, family, asylum, gender, and sexuality in the context of an...
My Journey from Feminist Alienation to Feminist Schizophrenia
16 June 2023
Farah Youssef talks to herself, and to the readers, tracing her feminist path through revolution, exile, activism.
On Academic Dissonance: Teaching Indignation or Teaching with Indignation?
04 June 2023
The article questions how pedagogy, the core of higher education institutions, is understood and operated within the academic world. By building on Paulo Freire’s The Pedagogy of Indignation, Estella Carpi discusses the behavioural dissonance between...
Cities in Revolution
Documenting the history of the uprising in six different syrian cities
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