In drawings: She gave me her detained son’s jacket
02 December 2021
“These things are for my son, but he wasn’t released,” the woman told me. “But you’re like my son, al-hamdulilah ala salamtak.” Thank God you are safe.
Pictures of Beirut: Between the spark of war and the fire of uprising
30 November 2021
Lebanon’s protest movement in late 2019 brought a sea of women and men from all walks of life down into the streets, becoming a sort of catharsis after years of...
What it’s like to be Algerian: Photographic anatomy
23 November 2021
I once read some graffiti that translated into “We are born by chance and live against all odds.” I consider this to be somewhat reflective of this situation in Algeria.
In Assad’s Syria, school is prison
18 November 2021
Public schools in Syria are ugly, prison-like and oftentimes violent. That’s by design, argues Dellair Youssef.
Homage to Aleppo
16 November 2021
Suddenly Aleppo became Barcelona and Barcelona became Aleppo, and everything related to belonging became ambiguous.
The forgotten railways of Syria and Lebanon: Tales of a missed connection
29 October 2021
For nearly a century, a bustling railway network connected people in Syria and Lebanon to the world—and to one another. Amid violence and economic collapse on both sides of the...
Husseiba Abdelrahman: I ask myself why I decided to stay in Syria
26 October 2021
So that it wouldn’t be said that the people of Kafr Sousseh had expelled the neighborhood’s minorities, I insisted on staying alone without electricity, and sometimes without water, with my...
In drawings: Exile and alienation in Germany
19 October 2021
"This type of intimacy and comfort with which we used to meet friends has been lost by Syrians in exile, replaced with a pathological nostalgia. Now we don't know what...
Deciphering the competition for Syrian oil: Part one
18 October 2021
More than a year has passed since the announcement of an oil development deal between a little-known American company and governing authorities in northeastern Syria. The months since the deal...
In drawings: ‘Little Syrias’ in a big world
30 September 2021
As children, we’d occupy ourselves with one thing only: asking our grandmother questions over and over again. Where is grandfather’s brother Hassan? Did he come back to Syria? Which country...
Journalists in northwestern Syria: Between exploitation and displacement
23 September 2021
Northwestern Syria is a dangerous place for anyone. For local journalists, living there means facing bombs, displacement and low income on top of harassment from hardline Islamist authorities. How do...
Cities in Revolution
Documenting the history of the uprising in six different syrian cities
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