[Editor’s note: The below text has been compiled from an interview with a Syrian activist identified as Hammoudi, conducted by The Syria Campaign on the occasion of Pride Month. It is also available in Arabic.] When the Syrian revolution began in 2011, I was studying architecture in the city of Raqqa, in northeast Syria. I was arrested for the first time by the Bashar al-Assad…

The sight of Syrian revolution supporters demonstrating in solidarity with the Palestinians in various cities across the diaspora, and voicing this solidarity in the press and on social media, shows us a new kind of language and expression; one which brings Syria’s last decade to the center of the stage. “This rubble looks like our rubble,” it seems to say. “These fighter jets look like…

Based on years of fieldwork with displaced Syrians, anthropologist Dr. Charlotte Al-Khalili finds that while the Syrian revolution may not (yet) have produced political regime change, it has nonetheless brought about profound and likely permanent social transformations.

On Wednesday, the member states of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) voted to strip Syria of its voting rights at the UN-backed chemical weapons watchdog, in response to its repeated failure to comply with the OPCW’s decisions. It is a symbolic move in a symbolic month; one laden with memories of chemical attacks on the Syrian towns of Khan Shaykhun and…

The world we live in never ceases to amaze in its capacity for injustice, ugliness, and pain day after day. At times, this prompts us to withdraw from the public eye; to stop sharing our stories; and to take a step back in order to protect ourselves from the harm that only breeds feelings of uselessness, followed by indifference, towards any other issue that doesn’t…

In an open letter marking ten years since Syria’s uprising began, over 300 signatories from Syria and 34 other countries decry the dehumanizing propaganda and disinformation with which Syrians are too often smeared in the name of left-wing or “anti-imperialist” politics.

Ten years on from Syria’s revolution, it’s high time Europeans grasped that Syrians’ struggle is also their own, and that Europe’s future cannot be roped off from the Middle East’s, argues Prof. Joachim C. Häberlen.

Declarations of the Syrian revolution’s “failure” overlook the profound ways in which the past ten years have positively transformed and empowered Syrians, argues Noor Ghazal Aswad.

Syrian writer and former political prisoner Yassin al-Haj Saleh talks revolution, Europe’s Syrian diaspora, and being “tragically hopeful” with Le Monde’s Christophe Ayad on the occasion of ten years since the Syrian uprising.

[Editor’s note: This article is the first of several that will be published in the coming days to mark ten years since the outbreak of the Syrian uprising. It was originally published in Arabic.]   As you count the small wrinkles that have surfaced on your face, someone comes to tell you ten years have passed. You feel you cannot quite distinguish between being awake…