(2025-11-03). Syrian forced migrants in Turkey have built businesses despite challenges. Here's what has helped them succeed. |
(2025-11-03). Susan Watkins: Israel after Fordow. newleftreview.org Netanyahu is building on the obliteration of Gaza to launch an external offensive across multiple fronts, aiming at cantonization in Lebanon and Syria, and regime change, if not state break-up, in Iran. What explains the West's political investment in an Israeli-centric Middle East, on conspicuous display during June's Twelve-Day War?
(2025-11-03). Jamal Soliman starts filming series about famous Sednaya Prison. albawaba.com 
ALBAWABA – After the fall of Bashar Assad's regime last December, horrific stories have emerged from the famous Syrian Sednaya Prison, which is also known as the "human slaughterhouse".Syrian writer Samer Radwan revealed on his Facebook page that filming has begun for the series "Al Khoroj Men Al-Bear" [Coming Out to the Well].He said that the story, screenplay, and dialogue were written by Radwan, while the series is directed by Mohamed Lotfi.The Syrian series will be filmed between Beirut and Damascus and will depict a historical period of years lived by detainees inside Sednaya Prison in Damascus.Syrian actor…
(2025-11-03). When Zohran Mamdani Campaigned In Arabic, He Was Speaking an Old American Language. scheerpost.com By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani made a campaign ad in quite passable colloquial Arabic for the some 180,000 Arab residents of New York, who live primarily along Steinway Street in Queens and in Brooklyn. Mamdani's wife, artist Rama Duwaji, is a Houstonian whose family hails from Syria. …