This article recounts the journey of an Italian researcher to Syria. Entering the country in October 2022, Giorgia tries to reconstruct her journey to post-bellum Damascus, Aleppo, and Palmyra.

“They were living in a state of harmony and contentment, and they would have preferred to go on living their lives as they were, rather than move to other, more...

Suddenly Aleppo became Barcelona and Barcelona became Aleppo, and everything related to belonging became ambiguous.

SyriaUntold brings you the latest edition of our digest. We want to share with you the news, features, investigative pieces and long-form essays that we're reading this week.

Anyone who tries to create some form of art, I suppose, is plagued every now and then with cynicism and pessimism. Especially during periods of collapse. “Why do anything?” we...

In decades past, mothers in Aleppo had a spell to unleash the voices of children suffering from alalia—speech delay. Can we apply their ritual today?