Leila Al-Shami with Updates from Syria + The Peoples Want
This week, we're sharing a recent chat with Leila Al-Shami, co-author of Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War and host of Syria:...
Opinion | The Death Blow Is Coming for Syrian Democracy (Published 2018)
The Assad regime's imminent assault on Idlib will empower jihadists and crush the last of the revolution's democrats. Why is the world...
Syrians Still Want to Be Rid of Assad and His Foreign Backers
You know the multiverse theory, that there are many parallel universes, and that they may contain alternate versions of ourselves and our...
Fighting on all fronts: women’s resistance in Syria
Picture courtesy of Al-Jumhuriyya As eastern Aleppo falls, pounded by regime and Russian airstrikes, and stormed by Iranian sponsored...
Syrians describe living in the crossfire of a brutal civil war for 13 years
Since Syria's “Arab Spring,” protests devolved into a decade-plus bloodletting. Fleeing civilians have been caught in the crossfire between...
THE ‘ANTI-IMPERIALISM’ OF FOOLS
Once more the western “anti-war” movement has awoken to mobilize around Syria. This is the third time since 2011. The first was when Obama...
Why we must back the Kurds, and Syria's political future post-Assad
Matt Broomfield and Leila Al-Shami provide some answers on how the international community can support a fair and equal redistribution of...
Democracy and secularism in Syria's revolution: United, not homogenous
In Syria, secularism is a fiercely contested topic. Assad supporters are using the term to discredit the revolution, while their opponents seek to redefine it.
Why the US Far Right Loves Bashar al-Assad
Ideological affinities and a long intellectual history lie behind the curious reverence for the Syrian dictator among fascists and white...
Leila Al-Shami: “The future of Syria will be decided by the Syrians and nobody else”
The fall of the regime was a decisive event. It marks the end of a horrible era of brutality in Syria's history. It also offers a tremendous...
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Syrian-born writer and activist; co-author of reporting and books on the Syrian uprising; active commentator on human rights, gender and civil society issues.