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Published in: North Africa, West Asia‘Lost in Lebanon’ explores restless wait for return
The film examines various dimensions of loss through a new concept of life in exile, in a country where precarious...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaTabqa Dam: the key to capturing Raqqa
An interview with Sinan Deniz, a Kobane-based ANF journalist embedded with the SDF forces in their battle to take...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaRegime wages war of documents on Syrians
One of the oldest manifestations of the Syrian government’s corruption has always been the blockage and manipulation...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaAgency and hope: helping communities healing themselves
When planning mental health services, treating PTSD is what usually comes to mind. What role do local communities...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaSyria: grassroots democracy, future prospects (Part II)
Part two of this interview with Joseph Daher explores some of the experiments in grassroots democracy and the...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaRevolution and counter-revolution in Syria (Part I)
This first part of an interview with Joseph Daher offers an in-depth look at the forces involved in the Syrian...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaAleppo's forgotten revolutionaries
Countless icons of the Syrian revolution who struggled for freedom between 2012-2014 have been ignored and erased...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaFighting on all fronts: women’s resistance in Syria
Women in Syria face numerous challenges yet continue to struggle against fascism, imperialism and patriarchy
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaSyria’s “voice of conscience” has a message for the west
Syrian dissident Yassin Al-Haj Saleh talks about the left and the regime, revolution and hope, Islam and secularism.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe genealogy of the Effendy
Undeterred by the regime's actions that have steadily pushed the Egyptian economy to the brink, the middle class...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaInfographic: understanding sectarianism
A very accessible introduction to how we should grasp and portray sect and sectarianism in Syria and the Middle East.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe intimacy of tyranny: Syria's de facto state legitimacy
The state has remained resilient in conflict-ridden Syria. A look into the intricacies of the abusive citizen-state...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaAssad's secular sectarianism
A historic overview of the manipulation of sect and religion by a Syrian elite only concerned with survival.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaSocial networks in Syria: between mediation and mobilisation
We still misunderstand the roles Facebook and Twitter play in how the uprisings across the Arab world began and...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaA Syrian fearing exile and return
Many Syrian activists have left Syria voluntarily, either being refused permission to return or being threatened...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaIs the Syrian regime sectarian? Sectarianism, part two
In the second part of our conversation on the state and sect in Syria with prominent Marxist thinkers from the...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaKafranbel: a paradigm of creative storytelling (Part 2/2)
The protesters of Kafranbel combine local struggles with global interests in their banners, they present the...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaWhat is sectarianism in the Middle East?
The term is heard whenever the Middle East or Syria are discussed, yet a talking head would be pressed to define...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaKafranbel: a paradigm of creative storytelling (Part 1/2)
As media coverage of Syria is increasingly monopolized by geopolitical and military approaches, a small town in...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaRazan and I
Razan Ghazzawi delves into her relationship with her mentor, namesake, and towering figure within the Syrian...