The past decade has seen Syrian alternative media and journalists become the main source of information for what is happening in their country. They live-streamed their pain, their struggles and their experiences of the countless crimes committed against them to the world. And yet, more powerful forces have made this media landscape falter in recent years.
The battle-torn city of Aleppo lies in ruins. Nonetheless, former residents of the city and experts located in Budapest are already working towards the reconstruction of the 5000 year old metropolis. By Iris Mostegel
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?
More than a year has passed since the announcement of an oil development deal between a little-known American company and governing authorities in northeastern Syria. The months since the deal have seen the Trump administration, which sponsored the agreement, leave office, allowing the new Biden administration to nullify it. However, mystery still surrounds the terms of last year’s agreement, and many questions remain over the identities of the parties involved.
Syrians are clearly shouting, “We exist.” They seek to leave traces of their existence wherever they go. They long to express the things they have gone through, for fear of these events being consigned to oblivion.