Sarah Hegazi in Syria
20 October 2020
To many LGBTIQ Syrians, Sarah’s death was a strong reminder of our continuous struggle and confrontation with the question: what is our fate in societies that continue to criminalize gender...
Photo and photographer: Time to shape our own narrative
18 October 2020
Amid international war reportage that dehumanizes them, and after decades of state propaganda that demanded their silence, what is the role of today's Syrian photographers?
Syria’s Labor Communist Party, a rich political history
16 October 2020
What can Syria's progressive opposition learn from the story of the Labor Communist Party?
In the shadow of that flag
13 October 2020
As Syrians, we were all inside different closets; we did not know ourselves or each other. When the revolution happened, everyone came out of their closets. Chaos ensued, but perhaps...
From Damascus’ al-Rawda cafe to Berlin’s Einstein cafe, a heartbeat
28 August 2020
When I had to take my one-way ticket to Beirut, I realized that I loved Damascus more than I expected and that I adored it to the extent that the...
Raqqa, at the center of the universe
16 August 2020
In Shahla Ujayli's latest novel, Raqqa is a summer’s dream: briefly beautiful, and then gone. Yet it is also preserved in memory.
‘Hostages’ of Assad under the Caesar Act
16 July 2020
After nearly 10 years of war, dilemmas over how the newest—and toughest—US sanctions impact everyday Syrians are hardly new, writes Maher Mas’ud.
The drama queen of quarantine
23 June 2020
My friend, who has always accused me of being melancholy, finally understood my moodiness. He told me the empty streets reminded him of people waiting for their deaths.
Cities in Revolution
Documenting the history of the uprising in six different syrian cities
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