Love in a Hopeless Place
The toughest battle we have to fight in Syria today is against the collapse of our own ideals, the fight against a mentality that subordinates everything to the exigencies of war.
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Crossing from Idlib to Turkey, Fall 2017
Even once you’ve made it across the border from Syria, you’re still a long way from safety. Turkish border police are hunting migrants all over the border region. And they do what they want with those they catch.
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All Our Liberation: The Arab Uprisings and Palestine
One of the most dangerous implications of the past seven years that will affect Palestinians in the years to come was the normalization of state violence and its use to suppress civilian populations.
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Cinema Utopia: Syrian Metal Is War
A collection of accounts of Syrian metalheads and their methods of coping and survival, shot in 2013-2014 and smuggled out on a rubber boat journey to Europe.
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Only We Can Bring Peace to Syria
There will always be people who celebrate even the cruelest of tyrants, be it out of ignorance, sadism, fear, or being advantaged by these rulers. But does that make a tyrant’s regime “legitimate”?
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From Saraqeb to Raqqa
The mood is that ISIS is so evil that anything is a justified response to it. People don’t know the history of Raqqa and what happened there over the last few years. They don’t know there are human beings living there.
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At the Core of the War in Syria
The Syrian population’s will to govern itself, to not lose heart when faced with military superiority, and to create alternative civil structures is exceptional. For that, many Syrian activists have paid with their lives.
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On Struggle, Suffering, and Meaning
Exiled Syrian dissident Yassin al-Haj Saleh in conversation with Loubna Mrie and Mustafa – The Irrelevant Arabs
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Syria Retold
Bashar al-Assad wanted to remove the moderates so he could say, “See? It’s only me or the extremists.” But there are still moderate Syrians, many of them. If their numbers are fewer, we need to ask ourselves why. Where did they go?
“Not leftists, those who stand with Assad!”
Condemn all the states that are carrying out wars against innocent civilians in the Middle East. They all oppose the self-determination of the peoples of the region and their struggles for emancipation.
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