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Syria: The Girls of Al-Tall Weave Ribbons and Freedom

The town of Al-Tall, in the countryside of Damascus, the Syrian capital, is famous for its highly educated inhabitants and its active women groups, despite the traditional nature of the community. In that context, we highlight ...
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International Political Forum

Keffah Ali Deeb: A Symbol of Syria’s Non-Violent Resistance Movement

When the Arab Spring revolutions first broke out, artist Keffah Ali Deeb was one of the first people in Syria to protest outside the Tunisian, Egyptian and Libyan embassies. She joined other activists in standing up against S...
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International Political Forum

WATCH: The Syrian Puppets of Freedom

Demonstrations calling for freedom at the heart of the palace of Bashar al-Assad (or Bisho, as a sarcastic nickname); puppets taking the forms of children, martyrs, shabbiha, and freedom fighters; a dictator screaming, “I am ...
by Syria Untold
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WATCH: Syria Inside – Black Humour and a Tribute to a Freedom Fighter

Black humor is the main ingredient of Syria Inside, a movie by Berlin-based Syrian Tamer al-Awam and German Jan Heilig that will launch in September 2013. The idea was born in 2011, shortly after the uprising started, to show ...
by Syria Untold
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Syrian-Palestinian Refugees of Rap: “The Age of Silence is Over”

Refugees Of Rap is a Syrian – Palestinian hip-hop band, one of the first in Syria. The four rappers, from Syrian, Palestinian and Algerian origin, started singing in 2005 in the Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmouk, locate...
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WATCH: The Syrian Revolution in Three Minutes

When Syrians started taking to the streets in March 2011, one of the most common pro-regime thugs’ threats was “to take Syria back a 100 years”. This soon turned into a joke Syrians repeated as their rulers displayed thei...
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WATCH: Syrian Pianist Malek Jandali – “We Need Freedom for True Art”

When Syrians took to the streets in March 2011, they rebelled not only against the ruling Assad family, but also against the obscurantism that had been imposed on them for decades. Art as a whole, and music in particular, have ...
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