A quick English summary of our Arabic news coverage this week.

A new documentary shines rare light on a private battle waged quietly by millions of Syrian women, forced to balance responsibility for their children’s wellbeing with a sense of duty to their community under attack.

A recent book explores the conditions under which Palestinians and Israelis might be able to reconcile. The challenges are immense, but worth studying, writes Joey Ayoub.

Our writer asked seven U.S. Democrat presidential candidates about their policy proposals for Syria. Only one, Elizabeth Warren, had anything to say.

A quick English summary of our Arabic news coverage this week.

[Editor’s note: This investigation has been nominated for the 2020 Samir Kassir Award for Freedom of the Press. It was originally published in Arabic on 16 May, 2019. The reporting was carried out  with the support of the Network of Iraqi Reporters for Investigative Journalism (NIRIJ), under the supervision of Kami al-Melhem.]   13-year-old Hibatullah stood in a long queue with a group of women…

A quick English summary of our Arabic news coverage this week.

A close examination of eight years of US policy in Syria shows Washington’s objective has never been regime change, but rather “a modified form of regime preservation,” writes Dr. Michael Karadjis in a comprehensive review of the record.

A quick English summary of our Arabic news coverage this week.

Survivors of the events in Syria are today trying to regain control of their lives in their countries of asylum. For many, it’s not only a matter of dealing with what’s yet to come—the practical aspects of academic enrollment or finding employment—but also of finding ways to face what has happened; to absorb and understand it, and overcome it. In Germany alone there are over…