For young Idlib doctors who treated war wounds, COVID an invisible new threat
02 October 2020
Doctors warn Idlib is heading towards a “full-blown catastrophe” if coronavirus cases continue to increase. But in a part of Syria where residents have already seen more than a year...
Children at war: Reliving photos of east Aleppo
25 September 2020
In my youth and since I reached adulthood, I've expressed myself through photography. The children of Syria expressed their feelings too, through all their different ways of playing and surviving.
My childhood friend, now a ghost
18 September 2020
A psychologist friend of mine once told me that the best way to grieve the dead is to touch their bodies. In Islamic burials, we wash our loved ones with...
Death notices and black market oxygen tanks: COVID-19 in Damascus
10 September 2020
"Syrians are depending on themselves."
From Damascus’ al-Rawda cafe to Berlin’s Einstein cafe, a heartbeat
28 August 2020
When I had to take my one-way ticket to Beirut, I realized that I loved Damascus more than I expected and that I adored it to the extent that the...
‘Hostages’ of Assad under the Caesar Act
16 July 2020
After nearly 10 years of war, dilemmas over how the newest—and toughest—US sanctions impact everyday Syrians are hardly new, writes Maher Mas’ud.
The drama queen of quarantine
23 June 2020
My friend, who has always accused me of being melancholy, finally understood my moodiness. He told me the empty streets reminded him of people waiting for their deaths.
Fighting Terrorism Or A Pretext For A New Occupation?
16 October 2019
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...
A Syrian Visiting A Nazi Camp
25 September 2019
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...
How Women Are Depicted In The Syrian Curricula
22 August 2019
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...
Cities in Revolution
Documenting the history of the uprising in six different syrian cities
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