Syria in the Moment
While thinking optimistically about politics is never wise, it is impossible not to share in the euphoria of Syrians for […] The post Syria in the Moment appeared…
While thinking optimistically about politics is never wise, it is impossible not to share in the euphoria of Syrians for […] The post Syria in the Moment appeared…
After more than eight years of no contact, I conducted a video call with a former non-influential officer from an […] The post The Emotional Toll of Death…
The fall of Asad’s state of eternity on December 8th, the liberation of his regime’s prisons and security centres, the […] The post Forever no more? Between new…
On December 8th, 2024, Syria – my country of birth and the place where I lived for twenty-four years – […] The post Inheriting a Dislocatory Moment appeared…
In the shifting political landscape of post-Asad Syria, global narratives surrounding political Islam are undergoing a recalibration, blurring engagement with […] The post Recalibrating Politica…
Speaking was very risky during the fifty-four years long Asad family domination of the republic.[1] By speaking, I am not […] The post On Volte-Face (Takwi’) appeared first…
Sednaya Prison, long cloaked in secrecy and fear, has stood as a stark symbol of the Asad regime’s repression. For […] The post Seeing Sednaya: Echoes of a…
Khaldoun al-Mallah, a Palestinian-Syrian medical doctor and writer, journeyed south from exile in Idlib Province two days after the fall […] The post Avowing Revolution appeared first on…
The collapse of Bashar Al-Asad’s authoritarian regime (2000-2024) and the less-violent-than-expected capture of Damascus by Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) brought […] The post Beyond Preaching Unit…
On December 8, 2024, I received a flurry of WhatsApp messages from my friend Rawia. At the time, she was […] The post On inheritances and contradictions: Agrarian…
On the morning of December 8, 2024, just hours after the fall of the Al-Asad regime was officially declared, Syrians […] The post The Dictator’s New Clothes: Syrian…
To be honest, I can’t describe my feelings now; it is a historical moment. Syrians finally feel they can breathe, […] The post Recalibrating Hope and Revolutionary Temporality…
“Al-‘ard haafya. La terra è nuda [the land is bare].” Abdu concluded one of our discussions with this sentence in […] The post Return to a Bare Land…
Joyful crowds toppling statues, unsealing torture prisons, defacing regime iconography, ordinary people roaming freely through Al-Asad’s Presidential Palace . . […] The post Recalibrating Syria:…
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A little after 1 am on Feb. 15, 2021 during a frigid storm, the Texas electric grid came close to […] The post Deregulated Grids, Natural Gas and…
Regulation in images While in the Western European/American context, regulation is the stuff of big companies, in Poland it is […] The post Regulation (Un)Done: Introduction appeared first…