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Alex Rowell

Alex is a Beirut-based writer, translator, and managing editor of Al-Jumhuriya English. His first book, 'Vintage Humour: The Islamic Wine Poetry of Abu Nuwas', is due to be published by C. Hurst & Co. in November 2017. He tweets @alexjrowell.

In Gaza’s rubble, Syrians see their own

Yassin Swehat 19 May 2021

The sight of Syrian revolution supporters demonstrating in solidarity with the Palestinians in various cities across the diaspora, and voicing this solidarity in

Scamming Syria’s most vulnerable

Maysa Saleh 8 April 2021

The world we live in never ceases to amaze in its capacity for injustice, ugliness, and pain day after day. At times, this

We’re still here

Mona Rafea 11 March 2021

[Editor’s note: This article is the first of several that will be published in the coming days to mark ten years since the

The uncowable Lokman Slim

Alex Rowell 4 February 2021

Lebanon awoke Thursday to the gruesome news that Lokman Slim, an outspoken Hezbollah critic and pillar of civil society, had been assassinated in his car.

One year on, a path forward for Lebanon’s uprising

Alex Rowell 17 October 2020

As the French President Emmanuel Macron strolled down a Beirut street named after the first French High Commissioner in Syria and Lebanon, Gen.

Grave atrocities

Orwa Khalife 21 September 2020

The testimony delivered last month in a court in Germany’s Koblenz by the man who has come to be known as the “gravedigger”

“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

Syria’s parliamentary appointments

Orwa Khalife 20 July 2020

Ever since the Assad family seized power in Syria almost fifty years ago, the national parliament has been reduced to an object of

How Caesar will impact Syrian civil society

Al-Jumhuriya Collective 29 June 2020

Last month’s new US sanctions in Syria, commonly known as the Caesar Act, have sparked widespread discussion of their possible political, economic, and

Bullets and burning banks as Lebanon reopens

Al-Jumhuriya Collective 6 May 2020

Angry demonstrations have returned to the streets of Lebanon with a vengeance, following an interruption brought about by Coronavirus lockdown measures, now being

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