Trapped, detained, and deported: How Cyprus has been quietly deporting Syrian refugees
With €1,500 and a one-way ticket Cyprus' deportation machine, with EU backing, is pressuring Syrian refugees into ‘voluntary’ returns despite risks and legal protections.
Read moreDetailsA man with a crown and unchecked power: Inside Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund
The PIF’s rapid expansion cements Saudi Arabia’s global position but exposes human rights abuses, financial secrecy, and its role in whitewashing authoritarian rule through sports, AI, and mega-projects.
Read moreDetailsThe Burdened: Yemen’s struggle for survival told through cinema
Amr Gamal’s “The Burdened” is a story of sacrifice and survival that captures Yemen’s grim reality, where poverty often proves more lethal than the bullets of war.
Read moreDetailsAnd I return to count: A short comic
Syrian queer artist Qaduda reflects on the harrowing, daily experience we went through during the past year: the endless cycle of death and destruction in Palestine, Lebanon, and beyond.
Read moreDetailsSonic Liberation Front: Radio between art and militancy in Palestine
Radio Alhara and other community radios amplify Palestinian resistance, blending music, politics, and global solidarity to challenge colonial violence.
Read moreDetailsWhen they opened the prison doors
Hope, trauma and negligence in the immediate aftermath of the fall of the regime.
Read moreDetailsUnderstanding the threats ahead of a democratic and progressive Syria
The Syrian popular classes must organise to achieve the initial aspirations of the Syrian revolution.
Read moreDetailsEuropean politicians rush to expel Syrians
Announcing their decision to halt the processing of Syrian asylum applications, they have sparked panic among many Syrians.
Read moreDetailsSyrian detainees play their forgotten music in Berlin
The tragedy of musicians in detention, forced to create their own instruments from the simplest materials to endure the endless night of imprisonment.
Read moreDetailsOn the realization of fantasy
A testimony from Damascus on the historic moments of Assad's fall.
Read moreDetailsNasrallah, Syria and Palestine: Thinking beyond the narratives that speak us
how can we arrive at a condition in which a struggle for a democratic, inclusive and open Syrian polity and society comes to presuppose and to prescribe a struggle against Israel’s genocidal ethno-nationalism and vice versa.
Read moreDetailsThe hierarchy of the dispossessed: A short comic
Decades of suffocation dissolve with every shattered prison door.
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