After the fall of the Assad regime and the decline of Iran's influence, the residents of Deir ez-Zor woke up to a new distribution of power, something they had become...

Zenubiya’s feminist slogans are chanted both in Kurdish - jin, jiyan, azadi - and Arabic - al-mara, al-haya, al-hurriya. Aiming at reuniting women from all ethnicities in northeastern Syria, Zenubiya...

Raqqa is an Arab-majority but multi-ethnic governorate. Leila Mustafa spoke fondly of growing up there, and said that its coexistence drove her politics. No international reaction followed the “Kurdish woman...