Commentary

The layers of crime in Afrin

Orwa Khalife 31 March 2023

Around this time five years ago, the Turkish government announced the end of Operation Olive Branch in the Afrin district of northwest Syria.

Out of the rubble: Rebuilding intersectional feminism

Sara Jaleela 13 March 2023

[Editor’s note: This article was first published in Arabic on 16 February 2023, calling upon the global feminist movement to meaningfully respond to

Syria devastated again, ravaged by an earthquake

Al-Jumhuriya Collective 6 February 2023

The number of people killed and injured by the earthquake that struck Syria and Turkey at dawn today, Monday 6 February 2023, is

Towards an inhabitable world

Al-Jumhuriya Collective 16 May 2022

In a two-day ceremony held in the New Palace’s “White Hall” in Stuttgart, Southwest Germany, Al-Jumhuriya received the 57th Theodor Heuss Medal for

The Tadamon massacre reopens untold wounds

Yasmin Mashaan 5 May 2022

Having lived through unimaginable horrors over the past 11 years – including the loss of my five brothers to murder and enforced disappearance

Suffocation, our ethics and Russia

Marcell Shehwaro 15 April 2022

The world must heed Syrian calls for justice

The political blindness of anti-racist discourse

Joachim Haeberlen 11 April 2022

As millions of Ukrainians escape from Russian invasion and receive a warm welcome by the European Union and supporters of the “refugee cause,”

The Ukrainian-Syrian-Russian triangle and the world

Yassin Al-Haj Saleh 25 March 2022

Up to recently, it had seemed that many people in the west think that the Russian War in Ukraine is qualitatively different from

The Internet is mired in false history

Zeead Yaghi 10 March 2022

In Al-Wujuh al-Bayda’ [White Faces], Lebanese novelist Elias Khoury recounts the fictional murder of Khalil Ahmad Jaber, a telecom worker residing in Mazraa,

Here and there: On de-provincializing the Syrian Revolution

Joachim Haeberlen 19 March 2021

Ten years on from Syria’s revolution, it’s high time Europeans grasped that Syrians’ struggle is also their own, and that Europe’s future cannot be roped off from the Middle East’s, argues Prof. Joachim C. Häberlen.