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Issue 37 – July 2026

Politics & Power

What Syrians really think

Lessons from 2,700 interviews about fear, disillusionment and public opinion after Assad

Local Dynamics

Palmyran wisdom

How one city is turning anger over Assad cronies into a local experiment in transitional justice

Local Dynamics

After the war

Syria’s Kurds and Turkmens are finding common cause in Damascus as they seek greater influence, representation and rights

Justice, Rights & Civil Society

Follow the money

Hassan Akkad’s arrest and Syria’s new red lines

Justice, Rights & Civil Society

Who should hold Syria’s evidence?

Why the IIIM should mediate the transfer of conflict documentation to national institutions

Local Dynamics

Integration blues

As opaque negotiations on SDF integration grind on, the city of Qamishli lives with parallel authorities, shrinking subsidies and growing uncertainty over who will govern next

Justice, Rights & Civil Society

Roadmap to where?

The EU reconfigures its relationship to Syrian civil society

Justice, Rights & Civil Society

Who fears the autonomous citizen?

The political struggle over Syria’s classrooms

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