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 moreDetailsThe US invasion of Iraq in 2003 and its blunders dismantled the state, planting the seeds of ISIS and its Syrian spillover.
Read moreDetailsWriting 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.
Read moreDetailsWith 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 moreDetailsM. held a sign asking if Germany learned from the Holocaust. She now faces criminal charges for it.
Read moreDetailsBosnia's fate was sealed not by war alone, but by the architecture of an unequal peace.
Read moreDetailsAs 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 moreDetailsDeliberate attacks on healthcare are becoming a hallmark of modern warfare — and a test of international law
Read moreDetailsThe Kurdish question resurfaces as Erdoğan juggles alliances abroad and repression at home, blurring the lines between foreign policy and domestic authoritarianism.
Read moreDetailsWithout fully embracing decolonial practices, academia’s commitment to transformative change remains superficial at best or a performative maneuver that ultimately sustains the status quo
Read moreDetailsSpain’s billion-euro agriculture sector depends on undocumented migrant laborers—now evicted en masse, left homeless, and trapped in a system that profits from their exploitation.
Read moreDetailsAs Western governments crack down on Palestine solidarity, universities are increasingly complicit in suppressing critical voices—Joseph Daher’s case is just the latest in a broader pattern of repression.
Read moreDetailsAnti-dam protests once halted the Yusufeli Dam in Turkey, yet, national capital co-opted these efforts into tools of displacement and control. The struggle, however, persists in new forms.
Read moreDetailsMore 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?
Read moreDetailsWith €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 moreDetailsThe 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 moreDetailsSyrian 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 moreDetailsHope, trauma and negligence in the immediate aftermath of the fall of the regime.
Read moreDetailsThe Syrian popular classes must organise to achieve the initial aspirations of the Syrian revolution.
Read moreDetailsAnnouncing their decision to halt the processing of Syrian asylum applications, they have sparked panic among many Syrians.
Read moreDetailsA testimony from Damascus on the historic moments of Assad's fall.
Read moreDetailshow 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 moreDetailsDecades of suffocation dissolve with every shattered prison door.
Read moreDetailsThe act of rebuilding is deeply symbolic. In the face of destruction, it serves as a defiant assertion of belonging and resilience, even when assurances of safety are absent.
Read moreDetails*This short comic was originally published on the author's instagram account @gadzooks_bazooka. It has been resized and republished with permission.
Read moreDetailsWe Germans remember the Shoah with guilt, but refuse to confront our complicity in a present-day genocide. What does 'never again' truly mean?
Read moreDetailsA law deeming the UN agency a ‘terror group’ raises global concerns over humanitarian missions.
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