In drawings: Exile and alienation in Germany
19 October 2021
"This type of intimacy and comfort with which we used to meet friends has been lost by Syrians in exile, replaced with a pathological nostalgia. Now we don't know what...
Deciphering the competition for Syrian oil: Part one
18 October 2021
More than a year has 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...
Book preview: Ottoman Syrians at home in the American Midwest
05 October 2021
Thousands of miles from home, families from present-day Syria and Lebanon rebuilt their lives from scratch in far-flung places across Iowa, the Dakotas and elsewhere in the Midwestern United States....
In drawings: ‘Little Syrias’ in a big world
30 September 2021
As children, we’d occupy ourselves with one thing only: asking our grandmother questions over and over again. Where is grandfather’s brother Hassan? Did he come back to Syria? Which country...
Syria’s Circassian minority divided, scattered by years of war
27 September 2021
Circassians first arrived in Syria in the 1800s, escaping Russian invaders in their homeland in the Caucasus Mountains. Since then, many have considered themselves “guests” in Syria, adhering to a...
Journalists in northwestern Syria: Between exploitation and displacement
23 September 2021
Northwestern Syria is a dangerous place for anyone. For local journalists, living there means facing bombs, displacement and low income on top of harassment from hardline Islamist authorities. How do...
Rateb Shabo: ‘Politics disappears amid violence’
17 September 2021
“Syria has been exiled. All Syrians have become strangers to their homeland. Or, perhaps, exile itself has become their homeland.”
In drawings: From Ottoman Syria to Argentina
10 September 2021
Mohammad and Amin snuck onboard the merchant ship docked at the Beirut seaport. It was 1913. They had just become stowaways, Mohammad at 17 years old and Amin at just...
Damascus’ forgotten ‘Saturday of blood’
07 September 2021
A painting, a mass execution and the murky history of a little-known Syrian leftist organization
‘Recreating a beautiful thing’
27 August 2021
“What’s important for a translator is to transmit this warmth and this love and this passion for what you're writing about, and I don’t think you can do that unless...
‘I fell in love with cinema’
23 August 2021
On Syrian filmmaking, ‘national cinema’ and the role of art amid war
‘My photography is me’
17 August 2021
“I don’t think anyone has a statistic or a definitive understanding of who was a photographer in Syria.”
Cities in Revolution
Documenting the history of the uprising in six different syrian cities
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