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

This study attempts to provide an analysis of the current situation remedies for many of the concerns relating to this issue, and to provide a vision about the practical steps that should be taken to solve the issue.

Ever since being liberated from regime control on March 4, 2013, the city of Al Raqqa has become the focus of Syrians’ attention as the first regional capital to have experienced some degree of autonomy. How do its people manage their affairs? How do they live? What is the reality of the military brigades on the ground? Who are these brigades? What is that unites…

Abu Qusay used to work as a tailor and a carpenter in his hometown of al-Ghizlaniya before the start of the revolution. When the tailoring business was slow, the heavy-set, burly 33-year-old would occupy himself with carpentry, and vice versa. Abu Qusay earned between 15,000 and 20,000 Syrian pounds on average per month. This was his family’s only source of income and it was barely…

  The thirty-year-old man was brought to “spot 200” in Duma as being injured by chemical weapons. He seemed debile and his voice was barely audible. The fighter on the front of Jawbar, East of Damascus, had spent 9 hours in “spot 1”, which is a hospital where casualties receive first aid. Out of the nine hours, he was unconscious for six hours, between 8…

Highlights The revolution is a Syrian settling of old accounts and an overdue payment of bills that were the result of Syrian silence and cowardice. The popular Intifada in Syria seeks restoration of the republic through the toppling of the old hereditary regime that is worn-out in all its institutions, and to establish an alternative system of governance Yes, I fear political Islam, before and…

“The revolution was peaceful” he added two dots “..”, then he continued, “we were working in media”, and he paused for a while before adding, “afterward the revolution was militarized”. His voice was barely audible, but I could access it and the feeling that what he was saying was not just some narrative, but it did not carry the usual taste of grief or of…

The reservations expressed in late 2012 by both Moaz al-Khatib, president of the Syrian National Coalition, and George Sabra, president of the Syrian National Council, regarding the US’s designation of Nusra Front as a terrorist organization, provoked vocal resentment among circles sympathetic with and supportive of the Syrian Revolution. Voices critical of Khatib and Sabra’s position talk of Nusra’s transnational character, its essentialist sectarian principles,…