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.…
BySyria
Latest in
Syria
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…
By“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…
ByA U.S. college professor has been teaching Syrians in the Zaatari refugee camp to make maps of their world
I first visited the Zaatari refugee camp in early 2015. Located in northern Jordan, the camp is home to more…
ByRebuilding 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…
ByOld Damascus has a long history of rising from the ashes
As a Syrian architect, my enjoyment is complete when I wander through the districts of Old Damascus. I used to…
By“Strange how the name of a city can come to mean an event, rather than a place”: Aleppo before ‘Aleppo’
I know nothing of Aleppo, beyond the fact it’s a Syrian city currently playing host to a terror it’s too…
By
