Books that were banned and available to Syrians only if they were pirated online, now are available openly. Read more at ...

A local author is sharing her journey after leaving her home country of Syria by weaving her story with recipes.

DAMASCUS — Books recounting torture in Syrian prisons or texts on radical Islamic theology now sit openly in Damascus bookstores, no longer traded in secret after iron-fisted ruler Bashar al-Ass ...

Books recounting torture in Syrian prisons or texts on radical theology now sit openly in Damascus bookstores, no longer traded in secret after iron-fisted ruler Bashar al-Assad’s ouster.

The poet says that while censorship in a dictatorship is nothing new, the same in a democracy feels like entering a new totalitarianism ...

Mohsen M Milani’s book charts the Islamic Republic’s rise to ‘peak power’ and the fall-out from Hamas’s assault on Israel ...

When they entered our neighborhood, they took our young men,' Muazzez Kerricha tells Anadolu, breaking decades of silence on ...

As Syria recovers from 13 years of civil war and five decades under the Assad regime, its citizens face the daunting task of ...

Syrian asylum seekers who arrived in the large ... I want to know if my house is still there. Where are my books? Where are my clothes?” While Ghazal retains a desire to stay in Germany and ...

As a Syrian American whose father was exiled from ... As anthropologist Lila Abu-Lughod has argued in her book, Do Muslim Women Need Saving?, there is an assumption in the West “that liberal ...

The Syrian civil war, which started in 2011 ... The writer is the Middle East correspondent for Eurasia Review. His latest book is Trump and the Holy Land: 2016-2020. Follow him at: www.a-mid ...

This is the eleventh part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia — to spend some ...