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8 Feb 2023 4 minute read

The interview: Mohamad Hafez

The Syrian-American architect and artist about the power of nostalgia and his lifelong homesickness for Syria.

Wafa Ali Mustafa holds up a picture of her father during a demonstration on the International Day of the Disappeared, at Alexanderplatz, Berlin. Credit: Ahmad Kalaji

16 Jan 2021 9 minute read

This article is almost three years old.

The search for Syria’s missing

The families of the disappeared are not giving up their search until they have answers. Jan-Peter Westad ...

A returnee sits in a bus next to a picture of Syrian President Bashar al Assad in Qusayr, Syria July 7, 2019. REUTERS/Omar Sanadiki

26 Nov 2019 5 minute read

This article is more than four years old.

‘Rebuilding’ and social cleansing in Syria

The Assad regime has laid out a blueprint for the reconstruction of Syria. But Syrian architects and urban planners ...

27 Jun 2018 6 minute read

This article is more than five years old.

Q&A with Zaina Erhaim

Anton Mukhamedov speaks with the Syrian reporter about the challenges of being a female journalist and the need to document...

19 Apr 2018 7 minute read

This article is almost six years old.

Will air strikes stop Assad using chemical weapons?

Dan Smith argues strengthening international law would do far more good than ad hoc missile strikes.

Portraits of three Syrian cities: Huossen Hamod’s daughter looks out from a fifth floor balcony onto their decimated neighbourhood of Ansari al-Sharki, Aleppo

31 Mar 2018 8 minute read

This article is almost six years old.

Portraits of war-torn Syrian cities

For those in government-held cities, only fragments of normality remain. Sally Hayden writes.

1 Dec 2017 2 minute read

This article is more than six years old.

Music from the world: our December favourites

Economic Partnership Agreement by Sven Kacirek and Daniel Mburu Muhuni; Syrian...

18 Sep 2017 6 minute read

This article is more than six years old.

‘My revolution across Syria and beyond’

A word with Macer Gifford, a former currency trader who joined the Kurdish revolution.

1 May 2017 3 minute read

This article is more than six years old.

Making Waves: how Catherine Shovlin is bringing a sense of community to a refugee camp

A radio soap opera is bridging social gaps in Azraq refugee camp. Florence Derrick meets its champion.

28 Mar 2017 3 minute read

This article is almost seven years old.

Why I write for New Internationalist

Editors looking for 'sexy' subjects today overlook tomorrow's news, writes Karlos Zurutuza.

1 Mar 2017 6 minute read

This article is almost seven years old.

Everybody's target

He is repeatedly attacked by both sides in the Syrian conflict, but Abdullah Al Khateeb sees no reason to...

16 Jan 2017 5 minute read

This article is almost seven years old.

Helping Syrian child refugees overcome trauma through theatre

In exile for her dislike of the Assad regime, Syrian actor Raghad Makhlouf decided to help distressed young refugees with...

9 Jan 2017 4 minute read

This article is almost seven years old.

Accountability is key to peace in the Middle East

We desperately need effective bodies to promote law and due process, writes William Bell.

18 Nov 2016 7 minute read

This article is more than seven years old.

‘I always carry Syria in my heart’

Rana Taloo, a Syrian humanitarian aid worker on the Turkish-Syrian border, tells her story.

10 Jun 2016 4 minute read

This article is more than seven years old.

The role of climate change in the Syria crisis: how the media got it wrong

Alex Randall argues that the conclusions drawn were the wrong ones.

8 Jun 2016 6 minute read

This article is more than seven years old.

Pt 3/3: A British-Syrian’s experience of a refugee’s journey

The reality of civil war and migration challenges identity while exposing new hope in humanity, writes Danny Ryan...

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