Hala Mohammad News Today

In her essay, the Syrian poet Hala Mohammad looks back at the early days of the uprising against the Assad dictatorship and how her country subsequently slid into civil war. The regime, she says, forced the population into a war that Syria and the Syrians can only lose

In her essay, the Syrian poet Hala Mohammad looks back at the early days of the uprising against the Assad dictatorship and how her country subsequently slid into civil war. The regime, she says, forced the population into a war that Syria and the Syrians can only lose

The award-winning Syrian novelist on Aleppo, the city of his ‘soul’, his fascination with the late 19th century, and his youthful introduction to Chekhov

In December 2010, anti-government protests erupted in the small Tunisian town of Sidi Bouzid, soon spreading across the country, and eventually triggering similar demonstrations in neighbouring countries. By February 2011, Egypt, Libya, Bahrain, Yemen and Syria were engulfed in uprisings of their own, with their autocratic governments under growing pressure. Ten years on, what the Arab Spring started has toppled governments and led to wars. But in those first months in the heart of the protests...