Salina: Untitled
22 July 2022
What are the places, events, memories, contradictions and transformations that can shape one artist’s consciousness around queerness as a revolutionary “identity”? How do queerness and different identities still resist (hetero)normative...
Thank you, Um Kamel!
Yaz |
24 June 2022
"A man and a woman in one body—it was a ray of light that fired up my imagination in an era before any usage of the many letters that now...
Hala Omran: ‘Acting is my life’
23 June 2022
"I cannot work on a project unless I’m fully engaged with it. My thoughts, my body, my feelings, my knowledge and memory—it all revolves around the work that I do."
On childhood, ‘being different’ and memory
17 June 2022
I want to tap into the happy memories of LGBTIQ people. When we revisit and deconstruct our memories, we do not always have to start from the bad, traumatizing or...
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...
Cities in Revolution
Documenting the history of the uprising in six different syrian cities
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