Ignacio M. Delgado Culebras

“I saw everything in Shingal. To be honest, I don´t believe in life anymore. I am living just for my people. I wish I was dead now. Just to get some peace,...

DUHOK, IRAQ - At an educational workshop in Khanke, a small town in northwestern Iraq, instructors from the University of Duhok’s (UoD) Center for Peace and...

In Istanbul, Syrian exiles are everywhere. They are in the snippets of conversations spoken with the peculiar musicality of the Syrian dialect in cafes near...

When he arrived in the city of Gaziantep in southern Turkey nearly a year ago, Jawad al-Muna was scared. He had left everything behind. He had left his family,...

In the spring of 2012, Samer Qadri and his wife Gulnar Hajo realized their future in Syria was bleak. During a short trip to the Abu Dhabi International Book...

In 2011, Syrian scriptwriter Alisar Hasan and her husband, Syrian filmmaker Feras Fayyad, shot the documentary On the Other Side. The film recounts the story...

My first impression upon walking into Arthere was somewhat bewildering. A couple was looking carefully at the pictures hanging on the walls while exchanging...

Yassin Swehat began to write as a hobby while he was studying for his medical degree in Santiago de Compostela (northwestern Spain). He began with the blog...

Reconciliation in Egypt remains a distant prospect. Polarization between supporters and opponents of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood grew steadily under...

In less than a year, Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood has gone from wielding power and holding the presidency to being ousted by the military; having its senior...

Amal Sharaf arrived at the agreed-upon café in Cairo’s Mohandeseen district, lit a cigarette, and said it was the worst day of her life.  A co-founder of...

Since the ouster of former President Mohammed Morsi by the military and the forcible dispersal of the pro-Morsi sit-ins in Cairo’s Rabaa al-Adawiya and...