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The US invasion of Iraq in 2003 and its blunders dismantled the state, planting the seeds of ISIS and its Syrian spillover.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

M. held a sign asking if Germany learned from the Holocaust. She now faces criminal charges for it.

Bosnia's fate was sealed not by war alone, but by the architecture of an unequal peace.

Deliberate attacks on healthcare are becoming a hallmark of modern warfare — and a test of international law

The Kurdish question resurfaces as Erdoğan juggles alliances abroad and repression at home, blurring the lines between foreign policy and domestic authoritarianism.

Without fully embracing decolonial practices, academia’s commitment to transformative change remains superficial at best or a performative maneuver that ultimately sustains the status quo

so, tell me. when do we mourn the living dead that we are, the muted throats that we occupy, the stones we pick and leave behind, the lives we exploit and live beside?

More than four years after the mass uprising that shook Iraq’s political system, what remains of the movement that once filled Iraq’s streets with demands for change?

The Syrian popular classes must organise to achieve the initial aspirations of the Syrian revolution.

A testimony from Damascus on the historic moments of Assad's fall.

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.

We Germans remember the Shoah with guilt, but refuse to confront our complicity in a present-day genocide. What does 'never again' truly mean?

In the face of destruction and enforced forgetfulness, the madness of remembering is a weapon to reclaim Beirut’s identity and resist a world order built on erasure and imperial dominance.

The stories of the people are the story of the city—its erased history. In the midst of its destruction, the genocidal war machine seeks to erase its unwritten memory.

A law deeming the UN agency a ‘terror group’ raises global concerns over humanitarian missions.

The role of migrant workers in the anti-coup movement in Myanmar shows how migration can be a transformative and revolutionary phenomenon.

Late August 2024, the supreme court in Brazil issued a ban for X (formerly Twitter). The following clash with its owner, Elon Musk, reveals the intricacies of the relationship between global tech companies and colonial legacies.

The word terror means extreme fear, and there is no greater terror than being dehumanized by the world's most powerful military machinery.

A year has passed, and the brutal machine continues to devour our bodies, moving between Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, and beyond. 

A testimony from a detention center in Turkey reveals how the EU's outsourcing of border control results in severe detainee mistreatment, with overcrowding and abuse amid rising xenophobia.

Let’s turn a moment of potential despair into an exercise of love. What many white queer feminists lack in solidarity with Palestine here in Germany is Love for everyone.

Among other things, Gaza has exposed, once and for all, the neoliberal feminism that either stood idly by and watched, or actively contributed to the genocide.

Intimate encounters with a few plants and people along a pilgrimage route. What visions of an alternative future appear through these encounters and how can we renew the ways we relate to and inhabit the world around us?

The plants disclose their knowledge and complex histories of colonialism and migration, shifting the author's perception of the city.

The question of Palestine reveals the limits of Western governments’ commitment to their own Enlightenment values: in sacrificing Palestine, the West betrays itself.