On the "withdrawal" of Assad-era books from libraries and the perplexing censor at the borders.

At first, most theater practitioners abroad wanted to use art as testimony and introduce the “others”—or Western audiences—to the Syrian reality, away from the news published by international media outlets....

Writing was about hoping against hope, about reviving dreams of change and keeping them active despite the oppression.

Amid international war reportage that dehumanizes them, and after decades of state propaganda that demanded their silence, what is the role of today's Syrian photographers?