On childhood, ‘being different’ and memory
10 June 2022
There are so many demands for us to be accepted—unfortunately, mostly by our family members and those who populate our environments, which end up being the places where you get...
Queerness and transness on the Syrian cultural scene
03 June 2022
How can we create a sustainable queer archive that has the potential to become a reference for LGBTIQ people, civil society, and the Syrian artistic and cultural public sphere?
Eleven meters
29 April 2022
Despite everything, the historic homes stood their ground and remained untouched by the invasion of blue. They stayed there like stars in total darkness, radiating memory, art and literature, lectures,...
Where is my father?
25 April 2022
The image that prevails over all others is the missing picture of my father. The picture of my father who would prepare black tea for us each morning, the picture...
River life
23 April 2022
"People’s lives in this place have become intertwined with the river, like threads of a well-woven garment. Flooding season began last month, and despite the recent construction of the Renaissance...
Samar Haddad: Books are freedom and reading is what frees us
22 April 2022
We met with Samar Haddad, the woman at the helm of the historic Dar Atlas publishing house in Damascus. Since the 1950s, Dar Atlas has published, among other things, what...
‘Let us say tonight that sadness has no place’
01 April 2022
I know that Qamishli was my beginning—the first images I saw, the first things I experienced in life, my first football skills and personal relationships. And what the world wanted...
Deciphering the competition for Syrian oil: Part two
25 March 2022
Nearly two years have passed since the announcement of an oil development deal between a little-known American company and governing authorities in northeastern Syria. The months since the deal have...
On the anniversary of the Syrian uprising, where does the country’s independent media stand?
18 March 2022
The past decade has seen Syrian alternative media and journalists become the main source of information for what is happening in their country. They live-streamed their pain, their struggles and...
Archiving Syria’s lost cassette tape era
15 March 2022
“When you play these wedding tracks for a crowd in London, people jump off the roof, the music has that much energy. It’s so raw and so real and you...
Mohamad Al Roumi: Cinema is always necessary
11 March 2022
“They were living in a state of harmony and contentment, and they would have preferred to go on living their lives as they were, rather than move to other, more...
Cities in Revolution
Documenting the history of the uprising in six different syrian cities
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