For ep two of STIR, I'm joined by two Sweida-based activists from @npub1xvaz...nmpw to talk about the recent unrest in Syria in which members of the Druze community were targeted. Available for free on Patreon and wherever you get your podcasts https://www.patreon.com/posts/stir-2-unrest-in-128972762?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

Excited to launch a new podcast - Syria: The Inconvenient Revolution. Myself and @npub1vlkh...m0nh will be talking all things Syria & this first episode is an introduction to the podcast. Available for free on Patreon and wherever you get your podcasts. Part of From The Periphery Media Collective https://www.patreon.com/posts/128666665

Article looking at the way Syrian civil society organisations responded to the massacres on the coast in March, in which Alawites were specifically targeted & local solidarity initiatives

Civil Society Spotlight: The Massacres on the Coast | SyriaUntold | حكاية ما انحكت

I added my name to this statement by Syrians condemning the massacres of Alawites that occurred in March and calling for an end to sectarian discrimination among Syrian citizens https://aljumhuriya.net/ar/2025/04/17/%d9%81%d9%8a-%d8%a5%d8%af%d8%a7%d9%86%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d8%ac%d8%a7%d8%b2%d8%b1/

I'll be speaking at this event on the current situation in Syria on Wednesday ... https://merip.org/event/syria-at-the-crossroads-popular-revolt-counterrevolution-and-regional-transformation/

For those in London ...

Syria’s New Men: Masculinities and the Post-Assad Political Order

Middle East Research and Information Project

Syria's New Men - MERIP

Gender and the post-Asad political order.

A letter to Columbia by Mahmoud Khalil "The situation is oddly reminiscent of when I fled the brutality of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria and sought refuge in Lebanon."

Columbia Daily Spectator

A Letter to Columbia

<i>Editor's Note: This op-ed was dictated by Mahmoud Khalil, SIPA </i>’24<i>. Spectator verified this with his Attorney Amy Greer and conducted i...

More than a million people in Sudan’s el-Fasher are pleading for protection after the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) advanced on the city, killing hundreds of people while on its way.

Middle East Eye

Sudan’s el-Fasher pleads for help as RSF slaughters its way to the city

Witnesses tell MEE that paramilitary fighters indiscriminately killed civilians in their hundreds as they closed in on the North Darfur state capital

Syrian journalist Hadi Abdallah's call to action in face of the ongoing genocide in Gaza