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Stories Testimonies ProfilesFeatures InvestigationsSyria Writes Politics 10th Anniversary Economy Culture Little Syrias Syrian theater Science fiction Syrian narratives Syrian Cinema SyriaInFocus Oral Culture Environment Gender LGBTIQ Opinion Media DigestAbout Privacy Policy العربية Husseiba Abdelrahman: I ask myself why I decided to stay in Syria On political resistance and the state of the Syrian revolution SyriaUntold In drawings: Exile and alienation in Germany Revisiting what it means to live far from 'home' Rami Khoury Deciphering the competition for Syrian oil: Part one What we know and don’t know about a 'mysterious' US oil company in northeastern Syria Zenobia al-Adardisi Book preview: Ottoman Syrians at home in the American Midwest An interview with Dr. Edward Curtis IV SyriaUntold PreviousNext Features FeaturesLittle Syrias In drawings: ‘Little Syrias’ in a big world Revisiting stories of emigration Rami Khoury
As children, we’d occupy ourselves with one thing only: asking our grandmother questions over and over again. Where is grandfather’s brother Hassan? Did he come back to Syria? Which country does he live in now? Does he have kids? Aren’t...
CultureFeatures Syria’s Circassian minority divided, scattered by years of war ‘We no longer talk with one another’ Lama Rageh
Circassians first arrived in Syria in the 1800s, escaping Russian invaders in their homeland in the Caucasus Mountains. Since then, many have considered themselves “guests” in Syria, adhering to a policy of “neutrality” in Syrian affairs. The past decade of...
Civil societyFeatures Journalists in northwestern Syria: Between exploitation and displacement ‘While I was covering events, I became a part of them’ Hasan Arfah
Northwestern Syria is a dangerous place for anyone. For local journalists, living there means facing bombs, displacement and low income on top of harassment from hardline Islamist authorities. How do they cope?
PreviousNext Taking sides in the great war of mujaddara Dellair Youssef | 20 September 2021 Like all the world’s religions, the religion of mujaddara is divided against itself. There is a fanatical majority that loves eating the dish with bulgur, and a minority of rice-lovers... Rateb Shabo: ‘Politics disappears amid violence’ SyriaUntold | 17 September 2021 “Syria has been exiled. All Syrians have become strangers to their homeland. Or, perhaps, exile itself has become their homeland.” In drawings: From Ottoman Syria to Argentina Rami Khoury | 10 September 2021 Mohammad and Amin snuck onboard the merchant ship docked at the Beirut seaport. It was 1913. They had just become stowaways, Mohammad at 17 years old and Amin at just... Damascus’ forgotten ‘Saturday of blood’ SyriaUntold | 07 September 2021 A painting, a mass execution and the murky history of a little-known Syrian leftist organization Revisiting 11th century philosopher-poet Abu Alaa al-Maari, in pictures Rami Khoury | 30 August 2021 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... ‘Recreating a beautiful thing’ Madeline Edwards | 27 August 2021 “What’s important for a translator is to transmit this warmth and this love and this passion for what you're writing about, and I don’t think you can do that unless... PreviousNext Syria writes Art FeaturesCulture A decade of Syrian comics Archiving Syria’s hopes and despairs Bahija Haddad
Founded in the wake of the Syrian revolution, Comic4 Syria brought together young Syrian artists hoping to make sense of the violence and everyday brutalities going on in their country.
FeaturesSyria Writes Questioning ‘exile’ As my life goes on in Berlin, am I really ‘in exile’? Muhammad Dibo
In my mind and memories, exile was a remote and strange place. It was where the persecuted were forced to seek safety from arrest or death, where they were embattled by a daily longing for a lost home, family, a...
FeaturesSyria Writes Remembering my friend Bassel Shahadeh Bassel was killed by the Syrian regime 2012. I completed the film he started Dellair Youssef
Bassel’s family and friends handed me a great responsibility when they asked me to complete his film, a responsibility that will continue to stay with me, like a mountain on my shoulders. It will sit there until the end of...
PreviousNext ‘I fell in love with cinema’ SyriaUntold | 23 August 2021 On Syrian filmmaking, ‘national cinema’ and the role of art amid war ‘My photography is me’ Sima Diab | 17 August 2021 “I don’t think anyone has a statistic or a definitive understanding of who was a photographer in Syria.” The traitor Muhammad Dibo | 09 August 2021 The first sharp rays of sun hit her face through the bedroom window. Kiffah closed her eyes and bright orange waves danced beneath her eyelids, awakening some distant memory buried... For Syrian victims of the Beirut port explosion, a year of grief and rage Alicia Medina | 03 August 2021 One year ago, the Beirut blast killed 218 people, among them dozens of Syrians. Many feel neglected by the past year’s aid response and outraged by the lack of accountability. From Ottoman Syria to Argentina Jodor Jalit | 02 August 2021 In 1913, my great-grandfather snuck onboard a ship in Beirut, bound for Argentina. The decades that followed are my own family’s history, as well as one part of the story... ‘Little Syrias’ in a big world Muhammad Dibo | 26 July 2021 In his book "Origins," Lebanese-born author Amin Maalouf writes the story of his family, scattered across the globe. In search of his family’s descendants, who left Lebanon decades before, he... PreviousNext Cities in Revolution Documenting the history of the uprising in six different syrian cities Supported by Visit Visual Archive Syrian Cities Newsletter
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