Feature image by TOMO
Rehau – The Palestinian flag is everywhere.
Painted on faces. Draped across shoulders. Waving above crowds in London, Paris, New York, Sydney.
But here’s the strange truth: for most Palestinians, that flag has rarely carried the power people project onto it.
Continue reading “A Flag Without a People, for a People Without a Flag”
Hof — The fall of Bashar al-Assad in December 2024 didn’t just end a brutal era in Syria’s history.
It ended the Syrian Arab Republic itself.
The last thread holding the country together — the Syrian Arab Army — unraveled. Or was pulled apart. Assad didn’t go out in flames or defiance. He slipped quietly into Moscow’s shadow, carrying nothing but the weight of a broken nation.
Continue reading “When God Plays Dice with the Universe”
Cover photo courtesy of Sami Raad
Hof — It’s hard to know what kind of loss war leaves behind until it touches the shape of your city. Not just its people, or its streets, or the silence that follows after shelling—but the things that gave it meaning.
Its face.
Its posture.
Its language of stone and steel.
This is a personal story for those born into the spaces between worlds. These are the children of intermarriages—the outsiders who never belonged to any tribe. To those who’ve felt like mistakes, like intrusions, enduring the weight of invisible exclusion and the quiet violence of not fitting in.
Continue reading “The Thread That Holds Us in the Power of Love”
This article was originally published on the Daily Caller
DAMASCUS – I was just a freshman in late 2008 when Israel waged a major offense against Gaza. Just like most Syrians, I thought of that battle as my own. We have never distinguished ourselves from the Palestinians, not even during our current war. I recall being so outraged by the Israeli assault that I wrote a satire attacking not only Israel but also the entire Arab World for not doing enough to help the people of Gaza.
Continue reading “The Thin Line Between Us And The Enemy”
Roumani Line 