Photo by Veronica Ferreri
This collection explores how the archive permeates thought, language, and the struggle to narrate the revolution and the collapse of the al-Assad regime. Blurring the personal and the collective, the lived and the imagined, the past and the present, it treats archives—and history—not as static repositories, but as living, creative forces.
Each text captures fragments that defy order and resist unified narratives, bending toward a reimagining of what was once held as eternal—and is now no more.
Curated by Veronica Ferreri and Inana Othman
Photo by Veronica Ferreri
This collection explores how the archive permeates thought, language, and the struggle to narrate the revolution and the collapse of the al-Assad regime. Blurring the personal and the collective, the lived and the imagined, the past and the present, it treats archives—and history—not as static repositories, but as living, creative forces.
Each text captures fragments that defy order and resist unified narratives, bending toward a reimagining of what was once held as eternal—and is now no more.
Curated by Veronica Ferreri and Inana Othman
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 moreDetailsThe 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 moreDetailsAmid 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 moreDetailsRevolutions 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 moreDetailsIn Syria, our memory, shaped by fear, mistrust, and control, has become a battleground, caught between 'trauma porn' and modern tactics of erasure and forgetting.
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