Laughter fills the Zawaya Art Gallery in downtown Damascus. A packed crowd is chuckling uproariously at Syria’s first ...

At the time, only around 50 men faced "1,000 mukhabarat [intelligence agents]," whose leather-jacketed figures had, on that Friday, doubled the headcount in the mosques. Rahmani was arrested the ...

The Mukhabarat, Syria’s secret-police force, eventually caught and tortured everyone involved in the film. For two months, I slept fully dressed, ready to be taken at any moment. I believe I ...

ALEPPO: "Mabrook! We have won!" This is the phrase that has become a constant refrain among the locals and has repeatedly echoed since I arrived here a week ago. The words of joy expressed by the ...