The Circle of Peace is a self-help group for Arabic-speaking women in Germany based on Gestalt therapy approaches. Basma Elmahdy writes about this (virtual) space of healing and connection.

Our illustrator revisits the story of one Syrian woman attempting to heal from sexual trauma in Germany.

Nimat entered an arranged marriage as a teenager and endured years of sexual abuse. Now in Germany, she’s rebuilding her life and relationship with her body.

"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...

Syrian artists have taken on the role of historians, reporters and storytellers. They are trying to answer the question: “What really happened in Syria?”

Asylum ceased to be a mere legal status for Syrians, as it turned into an identity with special features and aspects that went beyond a legal denomination. It had meanings...