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.

In every TV drama, film or song, I always managed to find someone who “represented” me, regardless of whether this character was queer or not. However, I would get ecstatic...

What are the places, events, memories, contradictions and transformations that can shape one artist’s consciousness around queerness as a revolutionary “identity”? How do queerness and different identities still resist (hetero)normative...

We met with Samar Haddad, the woman at the helm of the historic Dar Atlas publishing house in Damascus. Since the 1950s, Dar Atlas has published, among other things, what...

Our illustrator revisits the story of the literary publication known only as “the pamphlet”