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Illustration by Tawfiq Dawi BEIRUT — M. had not slept for two months when she reached out to Jouhaina Mouslem asking for psychological help. “This woman was devastated, collapsed,” recalled Mouslem, a psychologist originally from Aleppo and currently active in the mental health programs of the ‘Women Now’ NGO in Lebanon.  M. had been detained in a Syrian regime prison. After being released, her husband left her, so she fled to Lebanon, leaving her two children in Syria. M. remarried and had a son, but her second husband also left her. She was in a critical economic situation. “Sh...

April 6, 2021Updated 12:36 p.m. ET IDLIB, Syria — Among the millions of Syrians who fled as the government bombed their towns, destroyed their homes and killed their loved ones are 150 families squatting in a soccer stadium in the northwestern city of Idlib, sheltering in rickety tents under the stands or in the rocky courtyard. Work is scarce and terror grips them whenever jets buzz overhead: New airstrikes could come at any time. But the fear of government retribution keeps them from returning home. More than 1,300 similar camps dot Syria’s last bastions under rebel control, eating up f...

Like being in Assad’s prisons: Female survivors recall their ordeals in HTS cells January 7, 2021 Two women participate in a demonstration in Idlib province for the elimination of violence against women, 12/5/2020 (Idlib Media Center) AMMAN — After almost three months in detention by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), media activist and humanitarian worker Nour al-Shalo was released on Monday. However, the discourse around al-Shalo’s case and the presentation of insufficient evidence for the charges leveled against her prompted questions about what HTS prisons conceal, from arbitrary arrests a...

Haian Dukhan is a Carnegie postdoctoral fellow at the Central European University’s Centre for Religious Studies. He is the author of "State and Tribes in Syria: Informal Alliances and Conflict Patterns" (Routledge, 2019). Dukhan is a contributor to Fikra Forum. Ammar Alhamad is an MA student in international relations at Hasan Kalyoncu University in Gaziantep, Turkey. He is from Raqqa and has worked for different international organizations on issues related to the Syrian conflict since 2013. Alhamad is a contributor to Fikra Forum. Brief Analysis Iran is building military, social, and eco...

Reuters Global climate change and its impact on our planet is no more a cock and bull story or a conspiracy theory. It is a known fact that if global temperatures continue to rise and greenhouse gas emissions produced by human activities keep rising at the current level, the earth will be uninhabitable. It is a fine balancing act for countries to pursue the development goals of today without derailing the prospects for the coming generations to have a healthy future. As a country that has unapologetically pursued infrastructure development projects in the last decades, the UAE has but shown e...