Analysis

The ‘Caesar Bill’: A step towards accountability in Syria, or a worsening economic crisis?

The Caesar Bill has become the subject of debate among progressive and democratic Syrian actors. But what are the key arguments surrounding the bill?

Joseph Daher

Features

Syria: Let there be mayhem

As media turn away from covering government-controlled areas, Syrians are experiencing an unprecedented level of structural violence.

Myriam Youssef

Features

The audience of Syrian cinema in Germany: Between production and restrictions

What does the Syrian cinema look like in the Federal Republic of Germany and who is its audience?

Dellair Youssef

Features

Idlib's healthcare sector faces more than one existential threat as pro-government forces advance

Barrett Limoges

Features Syrian Cinema

New Syrian cinema: Young and gasping

Despite what many call a global news fatigue with Syria, powerful films continue to emerge.

Maya Abyad

What are some of Syrian filmmakers' concerns today? How do they produce their films? And what challenges do they face? Here, Syrian filmmakers Dalia al-Kury, Iyad alJaroud and Layla Abyad discuss the current state of Syrian cinema.

Features

Men evading military service in southern Syria’s Suwayda feel ‘trapped’

The southern Syrian province has become a refuge for tens of thousands of men evading military service, but to what end?

Amer Mahmoud

Features Syrian Cinema

Traditions of absence and ambiguity: The Syrian documentary and its public

Why are Syrian documentaries detached from the Syrian audience?

Wassim Al-Sharqi

Opinion Syria Writes

Fighting Terrorism Or A Pretext For A New Occupation?

Ammar Dayoub

Ammar Dayoub writes about Turkey’s latest incursion into the PYD-held areas in north Syria. He discusses that Turkey’s motives behind the operation are to eliminate the Kurdish control, rather than help the Syrian opposition as it states. He analyses the different possible scenarios and outcomes of this operation and predicts...

Syria Writes Testimonies

A Syrian Visiting A Nazi Camp

Questions about the meaning of memory and being a refugee in Germany today

Inana Othman

Syrian writer Inana Othman went to Ravensbruck to attend a workshop with work. But visiting the former Nazi concentration camp, and thinking of the horrors prisoners suffered there, brought to her mind her own experiences as the daughter of a political prisoner in Syria. Othman contemplates the meanings of freedom,...

Features Gender

How Women Are Depicted In The Syrian Curricula

An Analysis of the educational process and the various curricula taught in the different influence zones across Syria

Lama Rageh

Lama Rajeh explores how women are portrayed in the various curricula taught across Syria today; in the regime-controlled areas, in the opposition-controlled areas and in the areas run by the Kurdish Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria. She analyzes how gender-balanced these curricula are, and she compares the teaching...

The ‘Caesar Bill’: A step towards accountability in Syria, or a worsening economic crisis?

The Caesar Bill has become the subject of debate among progressive and democratic Syrian actors. But what are the key arguments surrounding the bill?

Syria: Let there be mayhem

As media turn away from covering government-controlled areas, Syrians are experiencing an unprecedented level of structural violence.

The audience of Syrian cinema in Germany: Between production and restrictions

What does the Syrian cinema look like in the Federal Republic of Germany and who is its audience?

Idlib's healthcare sector faces more than one existential threat as pro-government forces advance

New Syrian cinema: Young and gasping

Despite what many call a global news fatigue with Syria, powerful films continue to emerge.

Men evading military service in southern Syria’s Suwayda feel ‘trapped’

The southern Syrian province has become a refuge for tens of thousands of men evading military service, but to what end?

Traditions of absence and ambiguity: The Syrian documentary and its public

Why are Syrian documentaries detached from the Syrian audience?

Daraa's enduring rebellion

Mutations of Arab political filmmaking

Teachers, students live with burden of war and dire economic conditions in Damascus

The Syrian public and its cinema: Funding priorities - Part II

The Syrian public and its cinema: A tale of estrangement - Part I

On Syria's coast, children of ‘martyrs’ and ‘terrorists’ attend the same school

Fighting Terrorism Or A Pretext For A New Occupation?

A Syrian Visiting A Nazi Camp

Questions about the meaning of memory and being a refugee in Germany today

How Women Are Depicted In The Syrian Curricula

An Analysis of the educational process and the various curricula taught in the different influence zones across Syria

Life of A Mother Fleeing Bombardment In Idlib

War on The Forests of The Syrian Coast

Syria Through an Artistic Lens

Friendly Fire

International Women's Day: Women on SyriaUntold

Syrian women push for political say in liberated areas

Cities in Revolution

Documenting the history of the uprising in six different syrian cities

Supported by

Syrian Cities

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The Caesar Bill has become the subject of debate among progressive and democratic Syrian actors. But what are the key arguments surrounding the bill?

As media turn away from covering government-controlled areas, Syrians are experiencing an unprecedented level of structural violence.

What does the Syrian cinema look like in the Federal Republic of Germany and who is its audience?

Despite what many call a global news fatigue with Syria, powerful films continue to emerge.

The southern Syrian province has become a refuge for tens of thousands of men evading military service, but to what end?

Why are Syrian documentaries detached from the Syrian audience?

Questions about the meaning of memory and being a refugee in Germany today

An Analysis of the educational process and the various curricula taught in the different influence zones across Syria

Cities in Revolution

Documenting the history of the uprising in six different syrian cities

Supported by

Visual Archive

Syrian Cities