‘I fell in love with cinema’
23 August 2021
On Syrian filmmaking, ‘national cinema’ and the role of art amid war
‘My photography is me’
17 August 2021
“I don’t think anyone has a statistic or a definitive understanding of who was a photographer in Syria.”
A decade of Syrian comics
13 August 2021
Founded in the wake of the Syrian revolution, Comic4 Syria brought together young Syrian artists hoping to make sense of the violence and everyday brutalities going on in their country.
The traitor
09 August 2021
The first sharp rays of sun hit her face through the bedroom window. Kiffah closed her eyes and bright orange waves danced beneath her eyelids, awakening some distant memory buried...
For Syrian victims of the Beirut port explosion, a year of grief and rage
03 August 2021
One year ago, the Beirut blast killed 218 people, among them dozens of Syrians. Many feel neglected by the past year’s aid response and outraged by the lack of accountability.
From Ottoman Syria to Argentina
02 August 2021
In 1913, my great-grandfather snuck onboard a ship in Beirut, bound for Argentina. The decades that followed are my own family’s history, as well as one part of the story...
‘Little Syrias’ in a big world
26 July 2021
In his book "Origins," Lebanese-born author Amin Maalouf writes the story of his family, scattered across the globe. In search of his family’s descendants, who left Lebanon decades before, he...
Soudade Kaadan: 'Magic realism sneaks into all of my films'
19 July 2021
"How do you express the loss of your country, your people, of seeing all this blood? You feel like you’re no longer yourself, that you lost a part of yourself,...
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...
Sultana’s story
10 July 2021
My grandmother Sultana used to tell us these stories every time the electricity cut off and we gathered together in the dark. She talked and talked and talked without getting...
Media and Palestine: Times are (maybe) changing
02 July 2021
Palestinian activists and journalists, but also an array of actors at the international level, began this past May to challenge pro-Israeli narratives as never before.
Syrian theatrical practices beyond national borders
28 June 2021
Syrian artists have taken on the role of historians, reporters and storytellers. They are trying to answer the question: “What really happened in Syria?”
Cities in Revolution
Documenting the history of the uprising in six different syrian cities
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