Latest from Aubin Eymard
After Surviving the Syrian Civil War, an Underground Newspaper Makes a Triumphant Return
Smuggled past checkpoints, hidden under women’s clothes and printed in secret, Enab Baladi chronicled the Syrian revolution at enormous personal cost to its publishers. Fourteen years later, after prison, exile and loss, they have returned to Damascus to help rebuild the country’s media landscape.
A Syrian Village Fights To Save Aramaic, the Language of Jesus
The living language closest to that spoken by Jesus is a version of Aramaic that persists In the Syrian village of Maaloula. Yet war, emigration and changing traditions threaten its survival, despite efforts by a few dedicated individuals to preserve it.
Sitcom Under Siege
“No problem!” Sami al-Agha says on the phone, mid-scene. A second later, two deafening explosions shake the ground. Regime airstrikes.…
Syria’s New Comedy Scene
A group of Syrian comedians is making use of the country’s new freedoms to entertain audiences, while holding a mirror up to society at a moment of rapid change.
Inside Syria’s Captagon Industry
In Douma, near Damascus, a once-thriving “Captain Corn” chips factory has been revealed as a vast Captagon production hub — one of many that fueled a multibillion-dollar illicit trade that helped sustain Bashar al-Assad’s regime for years.
Families Seek Closure at a Damascus Morgue
Syrians with family members disappeared in regime prisons have gathered at the morgue in al-Mujtahid hospital in Damascus to search for their loved ones’ remains.
Hope and Despair at Assad’s ‘Human Slaughterhouse’
New Lines reports from Sednaya Prison, where Syrians brave horrors in a desperate search for lost loved ones.