All articles by Ammar Azzouz

Ammar Azzouz

In ‘For Sama’, Waad Al-Khateeb takes the world into her home in a city under siege

In her recent powerful documentary For Sama, Waad Al-Khateeb takes into the human struggle in Aleppo, a city under siege.…

Who is Syria’s reconstruction for?

The reconstruction of Syria has become a new landscape of contestation. Many appear interested or keen to contribute, seeing in…

“Upon land soaked with the blood”: on the architects planning the reconstruction of Syria

The war in Syria has turned many of its cities into battlegrounds. Places like Aleppo, Homs and Raqqa have been…

How Beirut is breaking down the divisions of its past

Barriers, walls, fences and checkpoints – whether in 20th century Berlin and Belfast or 21st century Aleppo, these do more…

Rebuilding Homs: how to resurrect a city after six years of conflict

As the conflict in Syria enters its seventh year, the toll it has taken on my home town of Homs…