Practicing slow scholarship in a hard world
I feel surrounded by a special sense of gratitude, one that I’m unsure I have ever felt before, exactly like […]
The Emotional Toll of Death in Syria: Revolution to Toppling
After more than eight years of no contact, I conducted a video call with a former non-influential officer from an
On Volte-Face (Takwi’)
Speaking was very risky during the fifty-four years long Asad family domination of the republic.[1] By speaking, I am not
Seeing Sednaya: Echoes of a Fallen Regime
Sednaya Prison, long cloaked in secrecy and fear, has stood as a stark symbol of the Asad regime’s repression. For
Beyond Preaching Unity and Inclusion: Observations from Syria’s Media and Online Spaces
The collapse of Bashar Al-Asad’s authoritarian regime (2000-2024) and the less-violent-than-expected capture of Damascus by Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) brought
On inheritances and contradictions: Agrarian questions in post-Al-Asad Syria and Lebanon
On December 8, 2024, I received a flurry of WhatsApp messages from my friend Rawia. At the time, she was
Recalibrating Hope and Revolutionary Temporality in the Wake of Al-Assad’s Downfall
To be honest, I can’t describe my feelings now; it is a historical moment. Syrians finally feel they can breathe,
Return to a Bare Land
“Al-‘ard haafya. La terra è nuda [the land is bare].” Abdu concluded one of our discussions with this sentence in
Their Life Has Been Taken; Their Death is Denied
Didier Fassin. 2024. Moral Abdication: How the World Failed to Stop the Destruction of Gaza. London: Verso. Israel’s nearly two-year
At the state’s gate: The uncomplicated coexistence of ideas about rights and hospitality among Syrian refugee youths in Jordan
Introduction In the short story Before the Law, Franz Kafka writes about a man from the country who attempts to