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...

For decades, the Assads have tried projecting an image of themselves as “secular” bulwarks against religious extremism. All the while, they’ve been shoring up the powers of loyalist religious institutions...

I hated my name when I was a child. I thought the other children in the village had nicer names. Mine was too traditional, not elegant enough. I preferred names...

SyriaUntold brings you the first edition of our Weekly Media Digest. We want to share with you the features, investigative pieces and long-form essays that we read and thought would...

The testimonies published in this file have shown a strong link between both religious/sectarian taboos and sexual taboos. After many years of suppression, Syrians were able to bring these issues...

Joseph Daher offers a materialist perspective after reviewing the contributions to SyriaUntold's special series on Oral Culture and Identity in Syria.