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  • A performance by Syrian producer Yara Ktaish at Kabbani Theater in Damascus on March, 2025.  (Copyright for Jalal Aldin Jabri)
    Artists in Syria

    Reclaiming space, testing limits

    Since Assad's fall, Syrian artists and intellectuals have been seeking ways to respond to a transformed reality. Four cultural workers reflect on the shape of the cultural sphere in the new Syria.

  • A cover of qantara & Kulturaustausch print issue about Syria.
    New print issue

    What will become of Syria?

    The question of Syria's future is the focus of the latest issue of Kulturaustausch, who we've partnered with for the first time. The answers come from our Syrian contributors. Articles are now available online in English.

  • تظاهر المثليون وحلفاؤهم في شوارع برلين في مسيرة فخر المثليين الدولية (IQP) في 26 يوليو/تموز 2025. (Photo: Picture Alliance/ ZUMA Press Wire/ N. Kanistras)
    ناشط كويري سوري في برلين

    السياسة، الخوف، والرقص الشرقي

    يواجه المجتمع الكويري، من المثليين والمثليات والعابرين والعابرات جنسيا، ضغوطًا متزايدة مع صعود اليمين المتطرف في ألمانيا. يتحدث الدرويش، الناشط السوري المقيم ببرلين، في مقابلة، عن واقع الكويريين بين سوريا وألمانيا، عن الانقسام والتهديد، وعن شغفه بالرقص الشرقي كمساحة للحرية.

  • Ein Mann in Lederjacke vor einer befahrenen Straße, in schwarz-weiß.
    The new Syria

    A history of violence

    For the first time in eleven years, Yassin al-Haj Saleh returned to his homeland. The Syrian writer and dissident found a country torn apart by internal conflicts and beset by worries about the return of tyranny. A historical analysis.

  • Men wearing headbands with lower faces covered and holding guns in the bed of a pickup truck.
    Stateless in Syria

    Will al-Sharaa naturalise foreign fighters and their children?

    Thousands of children born to foreign militia members and Syrian mothers remain stateless. As the government considers granting citizenship to fighters, their families—including the widows of deceased fighters—wait for clarity.

  • A pickup truck with a man seated behind a weapon, which is mounted on the truck.
    Political scientist Rahaf Aldoughli

    "Al-Sharaa must be put under pressure"

    Ahmed al-Sharaa promised a peaceful Syria, but violence continues to shape the country's transition. A genuine national dialogue, political participation and a strategy to integrate former fighters into the army are essential, says political scientist Rahaf Aldoughli.

  • Ein neu abgerissenes Gebäude, vor dem drei verzierte historische Säulen zu sehen sind.
    Kafr Nabl, Syria

    Traces of the revolution

    When the Syrian revolution began in 2011, Kafr Nabl went from a sleepy, provincial town to a hub of resistance. Today, it resembles a ghost town. Its story may help ensure the revolution's original ideals are not forgotten.

  • Women sitting on top of Mount Qasioun drinking tea under the shade of a tree.
    Public space in Syria

    Where Damascus goes to breathe

    Before the war, Mount Qasioun was a refuge for the people of Damascus, a rare space for freedom and intimacy. After Assad's fall, it was briefly reclaimed as a public space, but now large-scale private developments threaten to take it over.

  • Ali Khamenei stands in front of a crowd of listeners and raises his left hand.
    New biography of Ali Khamenei

    The man pulling Iran's strings

    Ali Khamenei is one of the most powerful figures in world politics, with influence extending far beyond Iran. Who is the man who, since 1989, has steered the Islamic Republic with an iron grip? A new biography by Ali Sadrzadeh sheds some light on the mystery.

  • An aerial view of people gathering in Umayyad Square following Friday prayers at the historic Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, performing the second Friday prayer since the fall of the Baath regime and the Assad family's rule in Damascus, Syria on December 20, 2024 (Photo: picture alliance / Anadolu | Izettin Kasim)
    Sectarian violence in Syria

    Assad's long shadow

    In Syria, "minority protection" has long been used as a pretext for pitting religious and ethnic groups against each other. We Syrians must refuse the weaponisation of our identities, because the new government is counting on division.

  • Exterior view of Qusay Awad's family home, built of stone with a courtyard
    History and reconstruction in Syria

    Dictatorship, dispossession and a missing mosaic

    A school, a military base, an archaeological site: from French colonial rule to Assad, this family home was seized and repurposed by successive regimes. Now, its owners are fighting to reclaim it.

  • A Toyota truck carrying a group of armed and masked fighters.
    Suwayda, Syria

    Not a local conflict, but geopolitics in disguise

    Sectarianism in Syria is a longstanding political project. Institutionalised under colonial rule and exploited by Assad, it's now being weaponised by the new regime and Israel, as the massacres in Suwayda make brutally clear.

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