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Last month marked 10 years since the beginning of the Syrian uprising when peaceful protesters, galvanised by the Arab Spring, went out on to the streets demanding freedom from an authoritarian regime and were met with bullets. President Bashar al-Assad vowed to crush dissent. In doing so, he set in motion a proxy war, creating what the UN’s human rights chief has called the “worst man-made disaster the world has seen since World War II”. Countless studies have shown that women and girls are disproportionately affected by war – both during and after – as existing inequalities are am...

Design: Bronte Dow Photo: Mondalawy/Wikimedia Commons Ten years ago, a wave of popular uprisings erupted across the Middle East, threatening not only local monarchs and dictators but the strategic interests of the Western powers that backed them. In this series, David Wearing looks back on these events, their causes and consequences, and asks what they can teach us about the nature of imperialism in the twenty-first century. – In a small, beleaguered pocket of north-western Syria, the aspirations of the original 2011 uprising somehow endure. Sarah Kasem was 12 years old when those first pr...

'We won't give up’: new generation of activists keep Syria's revolution alive Sarah Kassem: ‘My generation is still carrying the same hopes for justice and freedom.’ Photograph: Mohamed Haj Mustafa Sarah Kassem: ‘My generation is still carrying the same hopes for justice and freedom.’ Photograph: Mohamed Haj Mustafa In the few areas not retaken by Assad’s forces, people gather to reiterate the same demands protesters made a decade ago Mon 15 Mar 2021 01.00 EDT Last modified on Mon 15 Mar 2021 06.53 EDT Sarah Kasem was 12 when Arab Spring protesters began to fil...