Syria neglected his story, omitting him from official records. For many years, his tale remained untold.

Pascal Sleiman’s murder was the catalyst for a wave of racial hatred, but this hatred did not spring from a vacuum.

Young politicians are absent from the Syrian political landscape. To restore normalcy, we must recreate a “political marketplace” and encourage the younger generation to re-engage with political action.

As a child it was not clear to me where Lebanon began and Syria ended—in my head, it was one long road with the same trees.

[Editor’s note: The below is an edited version of a talk given by the author at Berlin’s Thinking Together conference on 25 March 2018 (video available here). An Arabic version of the text was published by Al-Jumhuriya on 29 March 2018.] The day I left Syria in the fall of 2013, I published a short essay titled, ‘On Bidding Syria Farwell… Temporarily.’ I could not…

With Lebanon’s authorities now obliging Syrian refugees to sign pledges not to have relationships with Lebanese women, the country has further debased its once-proud tradition of human rights, argues Makram Rabah.

At the UN last week, Lebanese President Michel Aoun made a dishonest case for the safety of Syrian refugees’ return.

An interview with Yassin al-Haj Saleh, the ‘voice of conscience’ of the Syrian revolution, translated from Flemish into English by: Jorn Decock.

Rouba Mhaissen explains what it’s like to manage a local humanitarian organization working with Syrians and the difficulties that come with the role.

Whenever I talk about my Damascene neighborhood, al-Midan, I struggle against myself and my own mind as not to forget its features. Any omission of these memories would mean my true estrangement, and this is what I attempt to escape. To me, al-Midan was not only the place I was born and lived in, but has always constituted an identity and belonging, and left its…

Maya Schkolne examines how the human rights framework operates as an apparatus for punishment and exclusion of migrants and refugees.

To the outside world, Sami and Ahmed are two other refugees trying to make it in Europe, but in their own words, they are revolutionaries who stood on the right side of history.

A Syrian woman from Aleppo seeks asylum in the Netherlands, but as she becomes a ‘refugee’, she wrestles with the meaning and reality of her ‘estrangement’.