“After Assad Loubna Mrie, Omar Dahi and Adam Shatz”
— London Review Of Books Podcast
“Hezbollah Waged War Against the People of My Country I won’t mourn or celebrate its leader’s death.”
— The Atlanic
“The Agony of Syria”
— Time Magazine
“Afrin After the Turkish Invasion: Expulsion, resettlement, and revanchism”
— Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung
“State repression begets the militarization of revolution. And yet, militarization itself incubates counter-revolution.”
— Commune Magazine
“Thousands of photos offer evidence of murder by the Syrian government—but we’ve ignored them”
— Quartz
“The western left’s understanding of the Syria conflict has lacked context and nuance.”
— The New Arab
“People are terrified. The battle for Idlib will be soaked in blood”
— The Nation
“The Assad regime has indeed won—it has won the war against its own people.”
— The Nation
“Many Syrians are well-aware of the role that major powers could play to determine the outcome of the war, but the public is divided on its support for the West. The United States and NATO are neither fully embraced nor universally reviled.”
— Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
“Bashar al-Assad Exploited Alawites’ Fear. To move forward, Syria needs to guarantee their safety.”
— The Atlantic
“The former president is making inroads in Arab American communities in Michigan, despite his Muslim travel ban and bigoted rhetoric.”
— Rolling Stone
“One thing that should never be debated is the sanctity of civilian life, and the fact that collective punishment is always wrong.”
— The Nation
“The problem with leftist myths about Syria”
— Al Jazeera
“We Talked to Syrians About the ‘Liberation’ of ISIS Stronghold Raqqa”
— Vice News
“Why does the US back two opposing rebel groups in Syria?”
— Quartz
“One of the central elements of the war is that the one force that should have been safeguarding Syrian lives—the country’s army—is the one killing them. ”
— Vice News
“We cannot read history backwards and analyse the current fragmentation between Syrian Arabs and Kurds as fixed or static.”
— The New Arab
“ISIS detained more than 7,000. Now, after the liberation of Raqqa, family members are searching for their loved ones.”
— The Nation
“Activism alone is not enough to create the impact needed to recover and rebuild what has been destroyed”
— The Cipher Brief
“Photojournalist, activist, and writer Loubna Mrie on the fall of Bashar al-Assad and what Syrians need to do to ensure a democratic future”
— The Ink
“Why Syrian Kurds Would Rather Surrender to Assad Than Fight Turkey”
— The Century Foundation
“Is Trump Looking for a Flashy Victory Over ISIS in Raqqa?”
— News Week
“What the Recent Infighting Between Islamist Groups Tells Us”
— The Atlantic Council
“Civilians and activists once detained by the Syrian government for joining 2011 protests against President Bashar al-Assad are again facing arbitrary detention and torture in secret jails. But this time, their captors are Syria’s hard-line militant groups.”
— News Deeply
“If all those pictures of the people drowning couldn’t change their minds, I am not able to change their minds.”
— The New Republic
“My father always had issues with my gender expression,” Nahas tells Quartz. “His eldest son being gay is pretty much the worst thing that could happen to him.””
— Quartz
“Meet the Syrian refugees living next door”
— Quartz
“As the world’s imperial powers unify against Syrians, we offer suggestions for how those in the West can demonstrate solidarity with the besieged”
