Tag: Syria

“From Syria without a leg, today I play football”

“When I was six years old I lost my leg and thanks to the humanitarian corridors I managed to get here to Italy from Syria. Now I live in Pomezia and one day while I was doing my physical education classes I started playing soccer. While I was kicking the ball, the teacher saw me […]

Declassified images from the Cold War show 400 Roman forts in Syria and Iraq

Declassified Cold War spy satellite images reveal hundreds of previously unknown Roman Empire fortresses in eastern Syria and northwestern Iraq, in addition to the hundreds already recorded by Jesuit archaeologists Antoine Poidebard in his pioneering aerial reconnaissance of the Middle East in the 1920s. Based on their arrangement, Poidebard suggested that the 116 military buildings […]

intimate tribute to a deceased friend

Paolo, the presence of the absent By René Guitton Desclée de Brouwer, 2023, €14.90 In July 2013, Paolo Dall’Oglio disappeared in Syria. The Jesuit priest was kidnapped in Raqqa while meeting with Daesh leaders. His loved ones have not heard from him since. In a text that is written like a long letter, the essayist […]

Khaled Khalifa, from Syria with courage – Corriere.it

From VIVIANA MAZZA, our correspondent in New York The writer who died in Damascus at the age of 59. He was disliked by the regime and had never wanted to leave the country. In 2013 he won the Naguib Mahfouz Prize from the American University in Cairo One evening ten years ago, Khaled Khalifa suffered […]

Khaled Khalifa, the Syrian writer who opposed Assad, has died

AGI – The Syrian writer died at his home in Damascus at the age of 59 Khaled Khalifa, suffered a heart attack. He was celebrated for his novels, television scripts and editorials, which earned him one of the highest literary recognitions in the Arab world. The news of the death was spread by journalist Yaroub […]

Najah Albukai, Syrian prisons in black and white

A curled up head and a traumatized mind. A talent for drawing and a pencil, for which he paid dearly in Bashar al-Assad’s prisons. As a child he drew animals and cowboys. (Repeat on June 12, 2021) After seven wars, a Syrian revolution, three imprisonments and the horror of sophisticated torture at the 227 center […]

La Corde Sensible, an encounter between music from both shores of the Mediterranean

Every Mediterranean country has its own culture. However, there are commonalities, especially in the artistic field. For more than a year, musicians from all walks of life have come together in the association La Corde Sensible to build bridges around Mediterranean music. Or how culture can go beyond politics and create connections. Published on : […]

Yasmina Kramer, with the Kurdish warriors

Yasmina Kramer is of German and Moroccan origin and was born in Algeria in 1981. She left the country in 1988. She has spent time in Kurdistan, Syria and Iraq. The effects of conflicts on the population are of particular interest to him. After working for Doctors Without Borders, Yasmina Kramer is a freelance journalist. […]

“Nezouh”, a small hope among the ruins of Damascus – liberation

With this tragic comedy about a Syrian family who refuses to leave their apartment under the bombs, Soudade Kaadan tries to pull the war film out of the gloom. In a besieged and deserted neighborhood of Damascus, a family refuses to give up their home and survives holed up behind closed doors, soon alone in […]

In Tangier at the Itinerant Literature festival.

Direction Tangier! In fact, in this beautiful Moroccan city across from Gibraltar, the 5th edition of the Itinerant Literature Festival has just taken place. After Salé, Casablanca, Marrakech and Fez, this time the event took place in the Bay of Tanja Marina in the presence of 40 writers from all over the world, 16 countries […]