A monthly magazine on Syrian politics and society that cuts through the noise

Demobilising NGOs

How to transition a war-shaped humanitarian sector to a peace-time role

A decade of conflict has turned many Syrian NGOs into state-like institutions. They delivered essential services, built sophisticated management hierarchies, developed their own political economies, m…

Politics & Power

Islamists versus Islamists

The Muslim Brotherhood’s return to Syria threatens confrontation with Sharaa

Interviews

Justice without a map

A conversation with Stephen Rapp

Local Dynamics

What’s left of the SNA

Syrian National Army factions are dispersed but remain too useful to demobilise

Justice, Rights & Civil Society

Whose civil society?

Grassroots civil society groups are re-emerging, but the struggle over who controls them has only begun

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Opinion

Voices that sharpen Syria's public debate

Majed Dawi

Three scenarios await Syria’s Kurds

03. December 2025

Mona Abboud

Syrian women are not political décor

30. November 2025

Hussam Eddin Mohammad

Muslim Brotherhood “co-existence” manifesto a sign of the times

28. November 2025

Mounir al-Fakir

Syria’s anti-ISIS gamble threatens internal stability

25. November 2025

Mufeed Izzedin

The myth of Syria’s Sunni majority

22. November 2025

Majed Dawi

Decentralisation is Syria’s chance to rebuild trust

20. November 2025

Mona Abboud

Life in limbo for Syrians Turkey no longer wants

15. November 2025

Hussam Eddin Mohammad

Two journeys to America and the end of radicalism

11. November 2025

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A monthly magazine on Syrian politics and society that cuts through the noise

Demobilising NGOs

How to transition a war-shaped humanitarian sector to a peace-time role

Islamists versus Islamists

The Muslim Brotherhood’s return to Syria threatens confrontation with Sharaa

Justice without a map

A conversation with Stephen Rapp

What’s left of the SNA

Syrian National Army factions are dispersed but remain too useful to demobilise

Whose civil society?

Grassroots civil society groups are re-emerging, but the struggle over who controls them has only begun

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Voices that sharpen Syria's public debate

Three scenarios await Syria’s Kurds

Syrian women are not political décor

Muslim Brotherhood “co-existence” manifesto a sign of the times

Syria’s anti-ISIS gamble threatens internal stability

The myth of Syria’s Sunni majority

Decentralisation is Syria’s chance to rebuild trust

Life in limbo for Syrians Turkey no longer wants

Two journeys to America and the end of radicalism

What Syrians think

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A monthly magazine on Syrian politics and society that cuts through the noise

Demobilising NGOs

How to transition a war-shaped humanitarian sector to a peace-time role

Islamists versus Islamists

The Muslim Brotherhood’s return to Syria threatens confrontation with Sharaa

Justice without a map

A conversation with Stephen Rapp

What’s left of the SNA

Syrian National Army factions are dispersed but remain too useful to demobilise

Whose civil society?

Grassroots civil society groups are re-emerging, but the struggle over who controls them has only begun

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Opinion

Voices that sharpen Syria's public debate

Three scenarios await Syria’s Kurds

Syrian women are not political décor

Muslim Brotherhood “co-existence” manifesto a sign of the times

Syria’s anti-ISIS gamble threatens internal stability

The myth of Syria’s Sunni majority

Decentralisation is Syria’s chance to rebuild trust

Life in limbo for Syrians Turkey no longer wants

Two journeys to America and the end of radicalism

What Syrians think

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