Archive Near East

Intervista all’attivista Hanadi Zahlout sulla condizione degli alawiti nella Siria post-Assad e sui pericoli del settarismo.

Dalla storica rivoluzione costituzionale alla realtà di oggi, in Iran donne e uomini sono in lotta per essere cittadini e non più sudditi.

Il regista Kassem Istanbouli ha aperto le porte del cinema Colisée di Beirut, trasformandolo in rifugio e cura dai traumi grazie all’arte.

L’attacco dell’Ucraina alla nave iraniana apre uno scenario di enorme pericolosità in cui la guerra diventa globale in nome della “difesa”.

Tra tutti i Paesi coinvolti nella guerra di Usa e Israele contro l’Iran, l’Iraq è l’unico ad aver subito attacchi da tutte le parti senza poter reagire.

Israele cerca una espansione sempre più aggressiva in Siria, con interi movimenti di coloni che rivendicano zone del sud come terra promessa.

Syria is no longer part of the axis of resistance, but Trump suffered a resounding setback when he tried to use it against Hezbollah.

The Iranian team came very close to becoming the first in history to take part in…

Trials begin against former regime officials in Syria. Russia requested to extradite Bashar al Assad.

Marjane Satrapi has presented a perspective that has never claimed to be universal, but rather one that seeks to break free from all imposed narratives.

Between inflation, a slump in production and cuts to social security, it is wage earners who are footing the bill for the war in Iran.

Asmae Dachan interviews Syrian journalist Shady Hamadi on the need for new journalism to observe the world and its changes.

On the occasion of the Turin Book Fair, Asmae Dachan interviews Gassid Mohammad, an Iraqi academic, writer, poet, and translator.

Asmae Dachan interviews journalist Leila Belhadj Mohamed on the need to break the Eurocentric perspective in journalism.

In Lebanon, the ceasefire has ended, but not the ethnic cleansing or the danger of losing state sovereignty. Report by Lidia Ginestra Giuffrida.

The German government has put the Syrian diaspora in Germany on alert, fearing the possibility of refugees remigrating.

The history of Hezbollah cannot be reduced to the silent label of “terrorist group”. We discuss this with journalist Riccardo Cristiano.

Report – As Israel advances into southern Lebanon, the country is divided between resistance and disarmament, negotiations and the fear of civil war.

Trump's vulgar words at the Future Investment Initiative in Miami reveal some truths about who decided the war in Iran and why.

Iranian researcher Minoo Mirshahvalad: “My people are trapped in the devastating paradox of two wars, both against us.”.

In the context of a turbulent Near East, the new Syria remains one of the biggest unknowns. An interview with researcher Silvia Carenzi.

Two recent investigations have shed light on the thousands of abductions of children, sons of political dissidents, committed by the Assad regime.

With the war against Iran launched by Israel and the USA, the European Union has lost yet another opportunity to assert law and diplomacy.

The Islamic Republic, Israel and the USA are fighting, but they share hostility towards the self-determination of the Iranian people and all peoples.

In the Israel-Iran war, Syria's role is a dilemma, caught between the ambiguities of the new regime and popular hatred towards the former Axis of Resistance.

The stories of displaced families in Lebanon echo what we Palestinians in Gaza have experienced and continue to endure.

For Arab elites, Jeffrey Epstein's files constitute an uncomfortable mirror: a map of shadowy business dealings, complicity and agreements.

In the ISIS-controlled camps run by the SDF, there are thousands of children and women who are victims of ISIS. But they have been treated as terrorists.

Navigating what is happening in Syria and Rojava, beyond propaganda and racist biases. An analysis through maps.

The Pahlavi dynasty has been preparing to retake power in Iran for some time. But behind the rhetoric of freedom, theirs is an authoritarian design.