A Previously Unpublished Interview with Father Paolo
26 August 2022
At the end of 2012, Waseem Hasan met Father Paolo on the sidelines of one of the opposition conferences and recorded an interview with him of which only partial segments...
Syria, Ukraine and bonding over activism
13 August 2022
Wafa Mustafa is a Syrian activist and Polina Oleinikova a Russian activist, both of whom live in Berlin, where they dream of freedom, break the rules and advocate for Ukraine...
Painting on the walls to endure Islamic State prison
03 March 2022
Abu Diyar and other Kurdish detainees spoke little, except for when it was necessary. I would find them whispering or teaching each other some Kurdish letters. I could hear some...
In drawings: She gave me her detained son’s jacket
02 December 2021
“These things are for my son, but he wasn’t released,” the woman told me. “But you’re like my son, al-hamdulilah ala salamtak.” Thank God you are safe.
Weekly media digest
16 July 2021
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.
A decade on, how can we work to free Syria’s detainees?
16 April 2021
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?
