Media Digest

Weekly Media Digest January 17, 2020

SyriaUntold

Profiles Stories

In pursuit of happiness

Love at 50

Alice Al-Shami

Features Syrian Cinema

New Syrian cinema: Young and gasping

Despite what many call a global news fatigue with Syria, powerful films continue to emerge.

Maya Abyad

In-Depth Secularism

Secularism in Syria: A national and democratic necessity

Military and religious tyrannies failed Syria. It's now time for a national democratic project that adopts secularism.

Mona Asa'ad

Opinion Syria Writes

Fighting Terrorism Or A Pretext For A New Occupation?

Ammar Dayoub

Ammar Dayoub writes about Turkey’s latest incursion into the PYD-held areas in north Syria. He discusses that Turkey’s motives behind the operation are to eliminate the Kurdish control, rather than help the Syrian opposition as it states. He analyses the different possible scenarios and outcomes of this operation and predicts...

Syria Writes Testimonies

A Syrian Visiting A Nazi Camp

Questions about the meaning of memory and being a refugee in Germany today

Inana Othman

Syrian writer Inana Othman went to Ravensbruck to attend a workshop with work. But visiting the former Nazi concentration camp, and thinking of the horrors prisoners suffered there, brought to her mind her own experiences as the daughter of a political prisoner in Syria. Othman contemplates the meanings of freedom,...

Features Gender

How Women Are Depicted In The Syrian Curricula

An Analysis of the educational process and the various curricula taught in the different influence zones across Syria

Lama Rageh

Lama Rajeh explores how women are portrayed in the various curricula taught across Syria today; in the regime-controlled areas, in the opposition-controlled areas and in the areas run by the Kurdish Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria. She analyzes how gender-balanced these curricula are, and she compares the teaching...

Weekly Media Digest January 17, 2020

In pursuit of happiness

Love at 50

New Syrian cinema: Young and gasping

Despite what many call a global news fatigue with Syria, powerful films continue to emerge.

Secularism in Syria: A national and democratic necessity

Military and religious tyrannies failed Syria. It's now time for a national democratic project that adopts secularism.

Men evading military service in southern Syria’s Suwayda feel ‘trapped’

The southern Syrian province has become a refuge for tens of thousands of men evading military service, but to what end?

Traditions of absence and ambiguity: The Syrian documentary and its public

Why are Syrian documentaries detached from the Syrian audience?

Daraa's enduring rebellion

Mutations of Arab political filmmaking

Teachers, students live with burden of war and dire economic conditions in Damascus

The Syrian public and its cinema: Funding priorities - Part II

The Syrian public and its cinema: A tale of estrangement - Part I

On Syria's coast, children of ‘martyrs’ and ‘terrorists’ attend the same school

Imprisoned By The Regime, And Ostracised By Society

Fighting Terrorism Or A Pretext For A New Occupation?

A Syrian Visiting A Nazi Camp

Questions about the meaning of memory and being a refugee in Germany today

How Women Are Depicted In The Syrian Curricula

An Analysis of the educational process and the various curricula taught in the different influence zones across Syria

Life of A Mother Fleeing Bombardment In Idlib

War on The Forests of The Syrian Coast

Syria Through an Artistic Lens

Friendly Fire

International Women's Day: Women on SyriaUntold

Syrian women push for political say in liberated areas

Cities in Revolution

Documenting the history of the uprising in six different syrian cities

Supported by

Syrian Cities

Newsletter

Love at 50

Despite what many call a global news fatigue with Syria, powerful films continue to emerge.

Military and religious tyrannies failed Syria. It's now time for a national democratic project that adopts secularism.

The southern Syrian province has become a refuge for tens of thousands of men evading military service, but to what end?

Why are Syrian documentaries detached from the Syrian audience?

Questions about the meaning of memory and being a refugee in Germany today

An Analysis of the educational process and the various curricula taught in the different influence zones across Syria

Cities in Revolution

Documenting the history of the uprising in six different syrian cities

Supported by

Visual Archive

Syrian Cities