Syrian Medical Student Tries to Keep up With What Is Happening in the World
While under siege in a very sad place in the world, a Syrian medical student volunteers to do some good and keep up with the world. Here is the 24-year-old…
Blatter Enables AFC to Keep Its Skeletons Under Lock and Key
Embattled FIFA president Sepp Blatter has spun the world soccer body’s crisis as a public relations and reputation management issue and a problem caused by individuals rather than a crisis…
The Reshaping of the Middle East
Battle and bloodshed in a dozen places across the region, a breakdown of law, order and normal existence in large areas, hordes of terrified refugees fleeing from conflict and from…
Syrian Painter Keeps Going Despite Pain
Despite the atrocities of war in Syria, Abu Malek, aged 21, continues to paint on walls in destroyed neighbourhoods to express the suffering and conditions Syrians live. Here is Abu…
Syrians Are Not Numbers, Or Are They?
Hundreds of Syrians all over the world posted photos of themselves with numbers on their foreheads in an attempt to humanize the thousands of victims killed at the hands of…
Syrian Rebel Leader Changes His Conservative Rhetoric in a First Talk With an American Newspaper
A Syrian rebel leader changes his conservative rhetoric in his first interview with an American newspaper. Leader of Jaish Al-Islam (The Army of Islam), Zahran Alloush, changes conservative stances when…
Does Globalisation Lead to Democracy in the Middle East?
Before the widespread use of the term globalization, and following the end of the Cold War, the field of international relations was briefly dominated by the short-lived concept of a…
What SouriaLi Radio Did For Syrian Children
SouriaLi, a Syrian Arabic-speaking radio station, emerged after the uprisings in Syria had started in 2011. It, among others, tackles issues about children in the Syrian context. SouriaLi produces material for…
UN Out-of-School Children Initiative (video)
In late 2014, UNICEF MENA commissioned a short film, You Know Me, about why the region’s children are not in school. Shooting took place in Jordan and Morocco, and the film…
The Middle East Enjoys a High-Context Culture While Europe Does Not
The Middle East tends to enjoy a high-context culture whereas Europe tends to enjoy different levels of lower context culture in comparison with the Middle East. Here is what this…