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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaSyrian prison literature and human rights: an interview with Shareah Taleghani
Literature about prison has actually assisted international campaigns in the release of individual detainees.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaCOVID-19 has deepened the 'pandemic of poverty' for Palestinian refugees in Lebanon
Social and economic upheaval in Lebanon in 2020 has deepened and magnified the poverty of Palestinian refugees.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaFor young Syrian refugees, education and employment cannot remain apolitical
Why is it that despite the huge efforts invested by donors and UN agencies, do young refugees continue to struggle...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaHow Syria’s Afrin became hell for Kurds
Turkish backed militias have turned life in Afrin into one of constant fear of torture, kidnapping, and death.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaWhat are Syrian mercenaries doing in Azerbaijan?
How can we understand the presence of Turkish backed Syrian mercenaries in Azerbaijan?
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Published in: Home: OpinionWhy isn’t Donald trumpeting his foreign policy record?
Afghanistan, North Korea, ISIS, Israel and the Gulf States: they’re at best partial successes, but that never...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaHow a generation of Syrian children in Lebanon were robbed of their education
Racism, xenophobia, and corruption rendered hundreds of thousands of Syrian children “a lost generation”.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Reimagining victory by winning the peace
If we want to see societies win the peace we need a concept of victory that is about justice and reconciliation,...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaSyria: local agreements, regional rivalry and a global pandemic
As the regime moves towards capturing Idlib, rivalry between Russia and Iran to control Syria is growing.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaHow does authoritarianism survive in Syria? An interview with Lisa Wedeen
How did the emergence of a civil-war autocracy in Syria change the way the regime reproduces its power?
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaUnderground Botox: what is essential and what is not during a global pandemic?
COVID-19 might have changed people’s perception of what is considered essential, but the perception of necessities...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaRojava: statelessness in a time of pandemic
Lack of international recognition as a state has disastrous consequences on an area already suffering from war and...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaSyrian cinema: motion picture in the age of transformation
The image can be an act of resistance and testimony that helps to understand the origins and development of the...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaHow do Syrian directors see censorship today?
Towards a new understanding of censorship, and its impact on Syrian cinema.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaA matter of life or death: Syrian journalists have nowhere to turn
In Syria, journalists report the news while facing threats from all sides of the war. Now we must do our part to...
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Published in: HomeBomb Idlib’s civilians, win the war: what the West taught Assad and Putin
The tactics of Syrian and Russian forces are unforgiveable – but scarcely different to what the US and its allies...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaFilming Syria: the politics of access
Does Ahmad Ghossein's film contribute to the erasure of the history of the Syrian revolution?
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe diasporic alienation of Syrian cinema
In the absence of Syrian screening platforms, who is the audience?
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaNew Cinema in Syria: The revolution continues, but so does censorship
Syrian cinema has more or less escaped regime censorship, or else we would not have witnessed new films and...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaIn Syria, education gives a flicker of hope: photo essay
In times of conflict, school can transform lives, reduce the risk of joining armed groups and nurture peaceful and...