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  • Students attend classes sitting on cold floors in classrooms with damaged walls, missing desks, doors, and windows, enduring difficult conditions to pursue their education in Idlib, Syria on October 17, 2025. (Photo: Picture Alliance / Anadolu | Kasim Yusuf)
    Education in Syria

    Returning pupils face language barrier

    Eleven-year-old Ali spent six years in Germany. Now back in Syria, he is struggling with Arabic, his native language, as the new government appears overwhelmed by the task of reintegrating returning schoolchildren.

  • A man stands at a desk looking at his phone. In the foreground, a stack of 2000 SYP notes bearing the face of Bashar al-Assad.
    Syria's economy

    Austerity and liberalisation won't rebuild the country

    Syria's government is pursuing economic growth through liberalisation, foreign investment and cuts to state spending. These moves benefit the new elite but won't lift the majority out of crisis.

  • A wall is painted with the new Syrian flag. It reads ‘Free Syria’ and, in Arabic, ‘Sednaja Prison, the human slaughterhouse: No forgiveness, no forgetting.’
    One year after Assad

    The road to a new Syria

    A year ago, rebel forces ousted Syria’s Assad regime. How has the country changed since? Leading experts weigh in.

  • The word “freedom” written on a demolished house
    Syrian newspaper Enab Baladi

    "We offer an alternative to propaganda and hate"

    The team behind Enab Baladi, the revolutionary media organisation founded at the start of the 2011 uprising, has returned to Syria. Co-founder Kholoud Helmi explains why their presence in Damascus is more crucial than ever.

  • 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.

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