“When the bombs rain down, the Syrian Civil Defence rushes in. In a place where public services no longer function these unarmed volunteers risk their lives to help anyone in…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
In 1986 Michael Mann began a strikingly ambitious project — to give a theoretical and historical account of the history of power in human history. This effort came to closure…