Deep dive

Sweida, with its various towns and villages, has been witnessing widespread protests, demonstrations, strikes, and sharp statements opposing the ruling regime for over four months. This article, first published on Syria Untold in October, investigates these protests’ origin, and what has been happening in this province since 2011.

Israel has increasingly consolidated its weaponization of women’s and LGBTQ rights in its genocidal war on Gaza through a massive campaign of disinformation and propaganda.

On the morning of April 15th, 2023, when Sudanese people awoke to the sounds of gunfire, they certainly did not imagine that their lives would be changed forever. Six months later, it is still difficult to fathom that the country that recently witnessed an incredible revolution that inspired the entire world is now a battlefield embroiled in a violent power...

Users, activists and journalists have denounced the censorship, particularly by Facebook and Instagram, of posts reporting on what is happening in Gaza and of messages of solidarity with its inhabitants

In the hours following the attack of Palestinian fighters in the south of Israel, Western observers, bewildered, speculated about why Hamas and the young Palestinians of Gaza, born and bred under siege and bombs, have launched an attack of this magnitude, and right now. Others expressed their surprise at the surprise. 

How migrants and asylum seekers, victims of Europe’s violations of human rights, are used as test subjects for tech experimentation

After the killing of 17 years old French Algerian Nahel by police, riots erupted again in France. Violence and social exclusion are rooted in the history of the old colonial power's banlieues, and police repression of urban revolts shows a neo-colonial approach, write sociologist Gülçin Erdi. 

A personal account of what it feels to live in contemporary Ecuador, where violence is part of everyday life, a "death world" where governments leave people to die.

A year after a massive earthquake claimed the lives of tens of thousands of Syrians and Turks, leaving hundreds of thousands homeless or traumatised, Untold Stories relaunches its ‘Earthquake' dossier published in collaboration with Orient XXI

Syrian Artists turned towards creativity in the face of the February 6th earthquake catastrophe. The different ranges of themes they addressed show particularly the reality of the Syrian people prior to the natural disaster and their permanent struggle for survival.

From the war of independence to the 2019 popular movement, the intersectional feminist Amal Hadjadj reflects on the history of feminism in her country, Algeria. New and older generations’ different orientations and priorities, in search for a common ground.

An interview with Jiyan Group about the revolutionary uprising in Iran.

Reflections inspired by Paulo Freire’s pedagogy of indignation.

The failing of Twitter’s Blue Tick policy.

An Interview with Lina Isma’il.

Feminist praxes and ideas in the 21st century: experiences from Palestine, Iran, Egypt, Syria, Tunisia, and Algeria.

“Dear Jina! You will not die. Your name will turn into a symbol”, Jina's family wrote on her tombstone. Her name was then repeated all around the world in streets and cyberspace to encapsulate the density of the revolution: its magical moment.