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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.
Revisiting 11th century philosopher-poet Abu Alaa al-Maari, in pictures

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Perhaps more than anything, Maaret al-Numan’s name sits on the shoulders of Abu Alaa al-Maari: the blind, anti-natalist, vegan, agnostic 11th-century philosopher and poet, born and buried in our embattled...
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Returning to Abu Alaa al-Maari in our year of plague

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