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A spacetime called Gaza

Omar Mousa 27 April 2022

An anxious shiver, a quickening of the heart. I always wondered what the people of Gaza feel when they leave it for the

Post-Merkel Syrians: Facing the German elections

Sham Al-Ali 23 September 2021

On the eve of the German elections, Sham Al-Ali meets with Syrian-Germans and discuss with them their options, arguing that there’s hardly anything uniquely “Syrian” about their highly political choices.

The Danish limbo

Yassin Swehat 6 July 2021

[Editor’s note: This article was published on Al-Jumhuriya Arabic on 6 July. It is also available in Arabic.] A Danish court issued a ruling to

Samira’s Syria

Francesca Scalinci 4 March 2021

Wejdan Nassif, a friend and former cellmate of Samira al-Khalil, the Syrian democracy activist imprisoned by Hafez al-Assad and then abducted by Islamists, recalls their time together inside and outside prison.

International and civil society organizations in Homs

Majdi Maher 15 October 2020

The beginning When the dark-skinned, twenty-something-year-old man who had just graduated from engineering school was offered a small job at a civil society

“Where do we go now?”

Alex Rowell 13 August 2020

“Beirut doesn’t look like herself this time.” – Mahmoud Darwish Now that the sheer panic and adrenaline of the initial seconds have

We, the eyes of Syria

Aram Abu-Saleh 23 July 2020

This text is inspired by the testimonies of many Syrians imprisoned by the Israeli occupation. Some are my own experiences, while others I

Among the condemned in Istanbul

Mosab Al Nomairy 16 July 2020

We crossed the Galata bridge at a hundred kilometers an hour. Like all his peers, the Turkish taxi driver didn’t know what made

Notes from Damascus’ Coronavirus lockdown

Karam Mansour 2 April 2020

The time is 10pm. Darkness enshrouds me as I write these words, after the last candle ran out half an hour ago. Electricity

Daycare for the displaced

Andrew Hirsh 6 March 2020

Millions of Syrian children have lived their entire lives in war. At The Wisdom House, a kindergarten displaced along with its staff and pupils from Idlib to Aleppo, Moumena and her colleagues attempt the colossal task of providing for these children’s educational and emotional needs.

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