Remembering my friend Bassel Shahadeh
28 May 2021
Bassel’s family and friends handed me a great responsibility when they asked me to complete his film, a responsibility that will continue to stay with me, like a mountain on...
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,...
Universalism and the distant future
06 May 2021
I don’t think that the future will necessarily be dystopian or bad. Any country or society can change drastically in just 50 or 100 years. We are talking about 300...
Land, revolutions and lessons from Syria
04 May 2021
“At the revolution's core was the question of self-determination. To what extent can individuals and communities choose how to live on their land, to exercise their power?”
Future disappointments
30 April 2021
For a long time, my country, Syria, has been subjected to an exceptional state of affairs: emergency laws and state agencies that regulated obedience. I think that if this “exceptional...
Pillars of science fiction
29 April 2021
Novels, dramas and films tend towards disasters and new systems that in the end turn out to be bad or catastrophic—and this is true on a realistic level, not only...
Cities in Revolution
Documenting the history of the uprising in six different syrian cities
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