Artists, musicians and poets showcased Palestinian customs and culture for students at the University of Manchester through animation, Arabic instruments and spoken word poetry.
Over the course of a year in the 1970s, a group of Syrian leftist poets and short story writers gathered to publish an underground literary zine, clandestinely printing at university libraries and handing out copies to students and friends. The publication went unnamed and, at least for a little for a while, outside the radar of the mukhabarat. In the short period before its editors either faced arrest or were forced into hiding, “the pamphlet,” as it came to be known, made waves through Syria’s literary scene.
For nearly a century, a bustling railway network connected people in Syria and Lebanon to the world and to one another. Amid violence and economic collapse on both sides of the border, can a few quixotic initiatives revive the lost trains?
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