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From Syria to the Silver Screen: In Conversation with Jay Abdo
Jay Abdo is a Syrian actor and human rights activist, who has featured in various films and television shows in the Middle East and...

Nour Kachi
15 min read


The Battle of Preserving Liberty: In Conversation with Mazen Darwish
Mazen Darwish is a Syrian Human Rights lawyer, freedom of expression activist and the president of the Syrian Centre for Media and...

Nour Kachi
18 min read


The Power of Information in the Syrian Revolution: In Conversation with Rami Jarrah
Rami Jarrah is a Syrian political activist who played a major role in exposing the Syrian regime’s war crimes during the 2011 Syrian...

Nour Kachi
29 min read


The Legal Battlefield of the Syrian Civil War: In Conversation with Anwar al-Bunni
Anwar al-Bunni is a Syrian human rights defender who has fought for the right to freedom of speech and for democratic reform in Syria. He...

Nour Kachi
16 min read


The Echoes of Incarceration: In Conversation with Mansour al-Omari
Mansour al-Omari is a Syrian human rights defender and legal researcher. He holds an LLM in Transitional Justice and Conflict. Al-Omari...

Nour Kachi
15 min read


Behind the Closed Doors of the Syrian Revolution: In Conversation with Wassim Hassan
Wassim Hassan is a Syrian political activist. He is a member of the The Syrian Women's Political Movement and the Mouatana Movement, a...

Nour Kachi
24 min read


Legitimising State Violence in Syria
‘It is authority and not truth that makes the law’[1] German philosopher Hannah Arendt says in her book On Violence : ‘The authority does...

Yara Bader
24 min read


The Syrian Conflict: The Myth of Containment and the Realities of Accountability
How and why the international community failed Syria One of the most unforgiving aspects of the Syrian Conflict is the fact that its...

Ammar Abdulhamid
19 min read


The Old Man of the Syrian Revolution: In Conversation with Riad al-Turk
Riad al-Turk was a political opposition leader, lawyer, and human rights activist from Homs, Syria. By many Syrians he is seen as a...

Nour Kachi
10 min read


Grasping 'the Devil' in the Details of the Syrian Government's Response to Anti-Torture Prohibitions
Introduction ‘Drown them in the details’, a long-standing strategic tradition of the Syrian government, was cited by Syria’s foreign...

Mansour al-Omari
27 min read
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