Qalaat Semaan, also known as the Church of St. Simeon Stylites, stands in the Aleppo countryside, northwestern Syria, as one ...

This is the third in a series co-produced by Syria Deeply and Hyperallergic investigating the visual and cultural responses to the crisis in Syria. The day Raghad Mardini first saw a crumbling Ottoman ...

Damascus International Book Fair this year offers more than books, it tells the story of Syria’s enduring intellectual legacy. From ...

News out of Syria may have faded into the background lately, but fear not because Jon Stewart is here with an update on what he calls, “the spinach of world news.” Unfortunately, though, things are ...

Syrian Culture Minister Mohammed Saleh was criticized this week after a video surfaced showing him at a historic Orthodox church with Islamic chanter Al-Mu’tasim Billah Al-Assali, who performed an ...

On June 22, 2025, a suicide bomber entered Saint Elias Greek Orthodox Church in Damascus during a packed evening worship service and unleashed unimaginable carnage. After opening fire on the ...

(RNS) — As Jews around the world were preparing for the new Hebrew year last week, Rabbi Asher Lopatin stood in Damascus looking at a different type of new beginning. While he visited Syria for the ...