Unleashing new Demons: How the US Invasion of Iraq Fueled Syria’s Collapse
The US invasion of Iraq in 2003 and its blunders dismantled the state, planting the seeds of ISIS and its Syrian spillover.
Read moreDetailsEternity unwoven: Echoes of the unwritten and poetics of the archive
Writing and archiving are emotional and political acts—a refusal to surrender memory to silence, transforming history into a living tapestry where endings become beginnings.
Read moreDetailsOur time is tomorrow
The archive of the revolution is both a child of hope and its creator. Through documenting their revolution and preserving their lived experiences since March 15, 2011, Syrians have managed to bridge the temporal rupture that repression sought to impose.
Read moreDetails2013 – Getting the process going
Amid the cracked tiles of the German Foreigners’ Office, Aras feels the weight of a people caught up in a circle of revolutionary upheaval, their horrific suppression and a bureaucracy of exile.
Read moreDetailsParadise, interrupted. The archive may not end
Revolutions fade, but their magic survives in music, memories, and fragments of a collective dream—this is a tale of witnessing the moments we hold onto.
Read moreDetailsA life lived without memory, yet together
In Syria, our memory, shaped by fear, mistrust, and control, has become a battleground, caught between 'trauma porn' and modern tactics of erasure and forgetting.
Read moreDetails“I Carry Their Grave Wherever I Go”: Gaza’s Endless Grief and Unknown Bodies
With Israel not allowing DNA tests in Gaza, families guess who to mourn. Children disappear into rubble. Parents are left clinging to memories, not remains.
Read moreDetailsThe story of a young woman on the right side of history, in a country that keeps taking the wrong one
M. held a sign asking if Germany learned from the Holocaust. She now faces criminal charges for it.
Read moreDetailsWhat Bosnia & Herzegovina Teaches Us About the Limits of Western Intervention
Bosnia's fate was sealed not by war alone, but by the architecture of an unequal peace.
Read moreDetailsBlood, Oil, and Silence: Saudi Arabia’s Role in War Crimes From Yemen to Gaza
As Gaza burned, Saudi Arabia kept the oil flowing, the arms investments growing, and its strategic alliance with Israel deepening — abandoning Palestinians to violence and impunity.
Read moreDetailsAcross War Zones, Targeting Healthcare has Become a Strategy, not an Accident
Deliberate attacks on healthcare are becoming a hallmark of modern warfare — and a test of international law
Read moreDetailsTurkey in Turmoil: Kurds, Youth, and the Fight for the Country’s Future
The Kurdish question resurfaces as Erdoğan juggles alliances abroad and repression at home, blurring the lines between foreign policy and domestic authoritarianism.
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