Radio Fresh: A Syrian history
11 August 2025
Born in 2013 in Kafr Nabl, Idlib, Radio Fresh assumes different forms: first a tool to amplify warnings of imminent bombings, then a journalistic platform and a community center. Later,...
Civil Society Spotlight: Episode VI
06 August 2025
After the killing of hundreds of civilians in Sweida, activists, journalists and CSOs mobilised, documenting the ongoing violations, criticising the government in Damascus, and expressing solidarity. Many voices raised against...
For Five Days, Sweida’s Soul Was Crushed—Its People, Homes, Crops, and Livestock... and So Was Mine, Trapped in Berlin
04 August 2025
Following a brief initial visit after the fall of Assad’s regime, Syrian novelist Najat Abd al-Samad, based in Berlin, was preparing for a longer return to her hometown, Sweida. But...
Radio Fresh: A Syrian history
01 August 2025
Radio Fresh is one of many grassroots journalistic initiatives born out of the 2011 Syrian revolution. Its founders, Raed Faris, Hammoud Jounin, and Khaled al Essa, believed change would come,...
HTS’ strategy to Consolidate its power in Syria
28 July 2025
The new authorities in Damascus are rooting themselves in international and regional alliances, including a possible normalization with Israel, are consolidating and extending their control on state institutions and economic...
Civil Society Spotlight: Episode V
22 July 2025
Syrian civil society reacted massively to the massive forest fires that broke out in the Latakia countryside on the Syrian coast. The environmental disaster presented an opportunity for Syrians to...
Civil Society Spotlight: Episode IV
02 July 2025
It was announced a pardon for war criminal Fadi Saqr, among the perpetrators of the Tadamon Massacre. Civil society groups and activists reacted strongly, reminding the government that civil peace...
Civil Society Spotlight: Episode III
14 May 2025
The reactions to the Kurdish Unity Conference raised questions about the extent to which civil society is able to play the role of a bridge between affiliations, rather than simply...
Rateb Shabo: The coastal massacres caused an early crack in the building of a national state after the Assad regime
12 May 2025
“The bullets that killed families who were safe in their homes are bullets directed at the chest of every Syrian, even if they think they are far from those bullets,...
Press in Transition in Syria: Constitutional Promises Amid a Climate of Crisis
02 May 2025
After decades, Syrian independent media can go back, and a new media landscape can be built. The challenges, however, are many, and the new authorities keep sending mixed signals.
Civil Society Spotlight: Episode II
29 April 2025
Since the fall of the regime, Israel has repeatedly violated Syrian sovereignty, killing and wounding dozens of civilians, and ultimately militarily occupying large areas in the South. While the government...
Cities in Revolution
Documenting the history of the uprising in six different syrian cities
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