What is life without al-Assad? Michel Kilo, the Syrian intellectual and opposition figure who died in 2021, once…

ثلاثة أحرفٍ (بنت) نحتَت مسارات حياتي منذ هجرتي القاسية من رحم أمي على يد خالتها، أم رامي، في مدينتنا التي كانت…

“Why are you still doing this?” A question thrown at me often by people who love me and those who hate me. Although…

It took me years to write about one of the smartest and bravest Syrians I ever met, whom I was lucky enough to call…

Four years after the 'liberation' of Raqqa, Zaina Erhaim looks back on her trips to the city, and pays tribute to…

Three years ago I was a newly arrived refugee in the UK, on the verge of losing my largely US-funded job because my…

I can still picture the scene at my grandfather’s house in Syria in the summer of 2002. Sitting between my two…

Journalists should get closer to marginalized groups Impartiality is defined as “not taking sides.” But in…

“الأسد أو لا أحد” هو أحد الشعارات الرئيسية التي يبّناها أنصار النظام السوريّ، في إشارة إلى الخيار العدمي الوحيد…

"Assad or no one" is the slogan that's been used by the Syrian regime and its supporters since the uprising began…