Society

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.

With Israel not allowing DNA tests in Gaza, families guess who to mourn. Children disappear into rubble. Parents are left clinging to memories, not remains.

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.

Radio Alhara and other community radios amplify Palestinian resistance, blending music, politics, and global solidarity to challenge colonial violence.

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

The 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.

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

Asylum seekers in Bavaria face more than just borders—they navigate a system where attempts to expose wrongdoing are punished by the very system that should be protecting them.

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.

A fictional dialogue based on the real experience of an Algerian lesbian mourning the loss of her partner, but in a society that denies her love, her grief goes unrecognized.

An exploration of the sonic and creative production of the feminist movement in Algeria, between radio, podcasting, and social media.

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.

Recent violent attacks against Syrian refugees in Turkey reveal a deep discontent with the country’s politics. A Turkish journalist explains why.

Our ancestors, who were often perceived as “ignorant” or “uncivilized” by colonists and western powers remain a model example of living in harmony with nature.

The southern Turkish province of Hatay has a large Arabic-speaking population. Beside the refugees who came in the past ten years, an ancient Syrian dialect is still spoken.

How popular music and songs are contributing to the normalization of hate and genocidal language in Israel

From menstrual precariousness to women in prisons, a journalism network comprised of women from several countries around the Mediterranean Sea, discusses women’s challenges and struggles from within a feminist lens, in Arabic, English and French in addition to other Mediterranean original languages.

The author reflects on identity as a trans man, in a time where pain and anger toward the unfolding massacre in Palestine should be silenced.

A new generation of content creators is dedicated to tell what's happening in Palestine, fueled by both a desire to be part of a community, and by a genuine interest in fighting propaganda and disinformation.

In the past few months, several feminists collectives have reunited in transnational assemblies, formed by a plurality of voices from different countries, to reflect on the ongoing massacre in Palestine in relation with Global South's common colonial injuries and struggles, and to demand a permanent ceasefire.

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.

Survivors of Genocide in Darfur 20 years later. Their struggle and resistance in Jordan

Scenes of violence at the border are well known, from migrants beaten by Hungarian border guards at the border with Serbia, to Haitian migrants chased by US mounted border patrols at the border between the US and Mexico. But what about love?

Thousands of people have landed  in the past few weeks in Lampedusa, closer to Tunisian coasts than Italian ones. The so-called emergency is created by the Italian government for electoral purposes and more repression.