The exhibition also highlights Britain’s response to refugee crises over the last 100 years. London-based artist Shorsh Saleh is one the few who have been commissioned…
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Category: VOICES
Meet the storyteller who fights to keep Syrian folktales alive
By Claudia Ferrandiz and Nil Montilla He wears a jellabiya and a tarboosh or fez on his head, while he holds a stick. With deep…
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Nayrouz Qarmout: “I didn’t plan to be a writer at all…”
Interview Sulaiman Othman The prize-winning writer on her short story The Sea Cloak highlights women’s voices in Gaza Born in Yarmouk in the Damascus refugee…
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Artist Shukran Bilal: Capturing War Through Painting
By Sulaiman Othman In Syria Art is capturing daily lives and trying to tell untold stories to people worldwide. How do artists deal with the…
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Diala Brisly: helping Syrian children through painting
By Claudia Ferrandiz Home Diala started studying at the Institute of Mechanical Engineering in Damascus. After a few months, she realized that this field didn’t…
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