Outputs of the Syria Media Literacy Lab 2025
Within the framework of the Syria Media Literacy Lab 2025, participants produced a wide range of journalistic works addressing key political, social, and cultural developments in contemporary Syria.
The Lab brought together journalists from different regions of the country and from diverse ethnic and social backgrounds. Through their reporting and analysis, the participants examine topics such as the long-term consequences of war, challenges of reconstruction, questions of governance and social cohesion, as well as cultural life and everyday realities across Syrian society.
The contributions presented here reflect the diversity of perspectives and experiences of the participants and illustrate the important role of independent journalism in documenting and interpreting ongoing transformations in Syria.
Below is a selection of their work.
A year after Assad’s fall – what is the state of the electricity sector in Syria?
by Baraa Hajjo
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Post-war justice: reforming the past and shaping the future. Transitional justice must not create new injustices.
by Eva Sheikh Musa
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The Struggles of Cancer Patients in Northeast Syria
by Aliya Mohammad
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Foreign Fighters in the New Syria – ‘The Shadow Army – and the Bomb the World Left Behind’
by Diana Ayoub
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Syria – When Drugs Become a State Within a State
by Diana Ayoub
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Syrian Child Labor in Refugee Camps in Erbil
by Ali Chaw SWR Hamza
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Displaced People from Rural Idlib Await Reconstruction Before Returning
by Yakeen Bido
Online Violence Against Syrian Women Activists
by Manar Abou Hassoun
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Israeli Attacks Prevent Syrian Farmers from Reaching Their Land
by Bashar Al Etemeh
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Artists After the Fall of Assad’s Regime – Reading the shifts in Syrian drama between two governments
by Tala Alshaikh Ali
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What Prevents Syrian Refugees in Jordan from Returning Home?
by Bayan Almasri
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The Zaatari Refugees… Between the Joy of Liberation and a Delayed Return
by Alaa Ali Alqasem
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Are Psychological Support Efforts Sufficient for Survivors of Assad’s Prisons?
by Israa Alrefai