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Emerging from the underground: On ‘For Sama’ and mainstream filmmaking

Syria goes to Hollywood, finally hitting the mainstream. We should be celebrating, shouldn’t we?

'For Sama' is the perfect example of an arthouse and activist film that also managed to reach the attention of international audiences and sell at the box office. Why, then, does this film leave me unconvinced, and even a bit cold?

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The moral triangle: Germans, Israelis and Palestinians in Berlin

An interview with Sa′ed Atshan and Katharina Galor about the difficult, complex relationship of these three communities.

Tugrul Mende

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COVID-19 on the Syrian coast

A matter of national security?

Hazem Mustafa

What’s really going on with coronavirus (otherwise known as COVID-19) in Syria? Has the regime actually been concealing cases, and why? And are Syrian hospitals equipped to deal with the coming crisis, after years of war?

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...

Weekly Media Digest May 29, 2020

The options for Syrian female activists in Lebanon: Fear, imprisonment or departure

Suffering in silence

Weekly Media Digest May 22, 2020

Weekly Media Digest May 15, 2020

Emerging from the underground: On ‘For Sama’ and mainstream filmmaking

Syria goes to Hollywood, finally hitting the mainstream. We should be celebrating, shouldn’t we?

The moral triangle: Germans, Israelis and Palestinians in Berlin

An interview with Sa′ed Atshan and Katharina Galor about the difficult, complex relationship of these three communities.

COVID-19 on the Syrian coast

A matter of national security?

On revolution and civil war in Syria

To share or not to share?

Weekly Media Digest March 13, 2020

Syrian students in Turkey caught between integration and an uncertain future

As ordinary Syrians struggle with economic crisis, questions over looming sanctions under ‘Caesar Act’

Syria: Let there be mayhem

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

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Syrian Cities

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Suffering in silence

Syria goes to Hollywood, finally hitting the mainstream. We should be celebrating, shouldn’t we?

An interview with Sa′ed Atshan and Katharina Galor about the difficult, complex relationship of these three communities.

A matter of national security?

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

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Syrian Cities