In Defence of “Building Violations” in Syria

The unique partnership model of a feminist political initiative

Civilians, combatants and liberation war

Al-Aqsa Flood and the Heritage of Coastal Palestine

On the illicit trade of Captagon between Lebanon and Syria

Could As-Suwayda’s uprising pave the way for the creation of a new Syria?

The earthquake that struck southern Turkey and northern Syria at dawn on February 6, 2023, did not, naturally, take into account the dynamics of the conflict within the borders of Syria. Nor did it care that Syrians in Turkey needed a permit to visit their country, or that the Turkish gendarmerie were killing Syrians as they tried to cross the border. Naturally, the earthquake did…

We witness the news from Iran with some hope and a lot of feelings of solidarity with people like us who no longer tolerate living under the rule of a terrorizing, authoritarian and imperialist regime. Images of the revolution in Iran show a clear feminist force on the street in adjacency to many other laboring and ethnic groups that have been maltreated by the regime….

Setting aside the agitation caused by raising serious feminist issues in real and virtual life, the general perception common among people is that men openly flirt with women, and women grumble about love, at times secretly and other times publicly. Men sing songs about the woman/home, whose waist is wrapped in stars and over whose breasts clouds roam. Women, in their turn, disdain poetry, and…

In recent weeks, I have had the sense that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has destabilized thinking prevalent on the Left in ways that suggest a disruption in certain higher-order social-imaginary significations (a term I explain below). This essay explores that possibility via an experiment in parallax, the observed displacements of an object caused by changing the observer’s point of view, using a juxtaposition of people,…