WHO rewards the Syrian regime for its atrocities
18 June 2021
Last month, Syria was elected to the WHO’s Executive Board. The body chose a regime that succeeded in destroying a nation's healthcare system, displacing its practitioners, weakening its capacity to...
Emerging Syrian theatrical experience in Europe
14 June 2021
At first, most theater practitioners abroad wanted to use art as testimony and introduce the “others”—or Western audiences—to the Syrian reality, away from the news published by international media outlets....
Hala Abdullah: 'I believe in cinema as a means of resistance’
11 June 2021
"I was deeply convinced that I left an imprint of my soul on every film I worked on, whether its producer admitted this or not."
The future cannot be written
04 June 2021
The future is, at its essence, a matter of reading and not writing, and so it can only be read where it has not yet been penned.
Syrian theater through a decade of war
01 June 2021
The theater, especially during the first years of the war, became dangerous for technicians and actors, who faced the risk of death at any minute on their way to and...
Current conditions of Syrian theater
28 May 2021
Syrians are clearly shouting, “We exist.” They seek to leave traces of their existence wherever they go. They long to express the things they have gone through, for fear of...
We are living in a simulation
27 May 2021
My prediction for the Middle East in 300 years is that by then the world—and not just the Middle East—will embrace a simulation theory.
Wael Sawah: 'I sacrificed literature for politics'
26 May 2021
"I have to admit: I think I have a double personality. When I am in the company of artists and novelists, I forget about politics and politicians, and as soon...
The future is one current moment, extended
21 May 2021
When people look to the future, or when writers write about it, it’s as if the future is something that will happen later. In reality, there is no such thing...
Nothing will change
14 May 2021
“One character dies and another comes to take his place with the same form of expression, the same form of indoctrination, the same form of thinking, of education, of many...
Iftar in Damascus: Stale bread and dwindling aid
07 May 2021
“You shall know them by their bags”—the words of this saying seem to ring true for Syrians, amid today’s economic crisis. Their shopping bags contain a little bit of everything,...
Cities in Revolution
Documenting the history of the uprising in six different syrian cities
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