Syria

Opinion

Syria: When I Saw My Forcibly Disappeared Friend on YouTube

Malath Alzoubi
Bassel would take me into Damascus’ side streets and alleys to “secret” restaurants and shops selling the best pies, sweets and shawarma. I would never have tasted them otherwise. He was arrested in 2013 and never heard from again. Until I saw him on YouTube…
Investigations

Lebanon: Hezbollah’s Image is As Important as Weapons

Mariam Seifeddine
Ever since Hezbollah’s establishment in the early 1980s, the camera has always accompanied the gun. To Lebanon’s “Party of God,” visuals are as important as arms. In fact, its arms would not have had the power they have, were it not for the power of the image.
Investigations

Syria: A Law Criminalizing Torture? Will the Assad Regime Punish Itself?

Carmen Kareem
Syrians will not feel reassured because of the new law criminalizing torture. The memory is still full of fear and screams. The new law will simply mean more brutality …
News

We Welcomed Abu Dhabi Before Assad Did

Hazem El Amin
The “Anti-Israeli Resistance” was never born out of a just cause or a lack of justice. Its members will applaud Bashar al-Assad wherever he goes, starting with his sending volunteers to Russia and ending with his visit to Abu Dhabi. The Abraham Accords do not pose any problems to them when the Emirates are on their side in their wars against their peoples, and their relationship with Vladimir Putin is a good example of this.
Opinion

The Day We Defeated the Lion: RIP My Brother and Lokman

Hazem Darweesh
On yet another commemoration of the forgotten Syrian revolution, only days after the commemoration of the killing of Lokman Slim, and only days before the commemoration of my brother’s death in Istanbul, I return to this language, Arabic, one last time.
Opinion

Syria: 11 Years Since the Fall of Bashar al-Assad

Wael Al-Sawah
“Who among us dreams, as I do, of a modern, democratic and prosperous Syria? Who among us is able to turn that dream into reality?”
Opinion

Ukraine’s Blond and Blue-Eyed Refugees

Houssam Alkatlabi
The EU’s rapid and positive response to the Ukrainian crisis raises questions among stakeholders and human rights organizations about discriminating between Ukrainian and other refugees.
Opinion

The Assassination of the Enlightened Lebanese Intellectual

Karim Shafik
Political assassinations in Lebanon, which almost become part of the country’s routine, highlight a complex history of foreign interventions and their repercussions on the local political, societal and sectarian reality.
Investigations

Was It a Gamble to Invest in the Crumbling Lebanese Public School System?

Maha Shuayb and Cathrine Brun – Centre for Lebanese Studies 
Lebanon’s economic crisis and the pandemic deeply affected schooling of refugees and Lebanese children. The economic crisis has had a direct impact on education, with 45 to 55% of refugee children out of school, with an identified 30,000 students dropping out of school in the past academic year without re-registering for the 2020-2021 year.
Investigations

Syrians Lose Their Relatives’ Remains After They Were Removed From Mass Graves

Mohammad Bassiki and Ali Ibrahim
Since the liberation of Raqqa in 2017, the city’s residents are still on a journey to search for the bodies of their relatives after they buried them under suspicious circumstances.They had to transport the remains in primitive ways from mass graves and parks out of the city. During the transfers, many of the bodies were lost and the remains were scattered, and they may have disappeared forever.

The English Section of Daraj News is co-supported by Anne Avis

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