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Mawada Bahah

Mawada Bahah

Mawada Bahah is a Damascus-based freelance Syrian journalist who focuses on environmental and society issues

Mawada Bahah is a Damascus-based freelance Syrian journalist who focuses on environmental and society issues

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‘Bitter experience of imprisonment’: Virtual reality revives horrors of Assad's notorious prisons

A museum in Damascus lets Syrians step inside Saydnaya prison through VR, ensuring that the tortures and disappearances under Baathist rule are not forgotten.

‘Bitter experience of imprisonment’: Virtual reality revives horrors of Assad's notorious prisons

‘Bitter experience of imprisonment’: Virtual reality revives horrors of Assad's notorious prisons

Syria’s Circassians mourn historic trauma for the first time in 53 years

Free from the shackles of the brutal Assad regime, community holds its first public event in over half a century to remember the 19th-century exile and genocide under Tsarist Russia.

Syria’s Circassians mourn historic trauma for the first time in 53 years

Syria’s Circassians mourn historic trauma for the first time in 53 years

Cultural sanctuary: Syria's Al-Rawda Cafe experiences a joyful rebirth

The historic meeting point for intellectuals finds new life in a post-Assad liberated Damascus.

Cultural sanctuary: Syria's Al-Rawda Cafe experiences a joyful rebirth

Cultural sanctuary: Syria's Al-Rawda Cafe experiences a joyful rebirth

Syrian families embark on agonising hunt for clues about missing relatives

Many have been scouring social media for photos, hoping to identify loved ones released from brutal prisons under Bashar al Assad’s regime.

Syrian families embark on agonising hunt for clues about missing relatives

Syrian families embark on agonising hunt for clues about missing relatives

'Where are the rest?' Families seek answers after Sednaya prison's fall

Thousands of people were freed from the notorious Syrian prison this week, but many families were still left searching for answers after failing to find their missing relatives there.

'Where are the rest?' Families seek answers after Sednaya prison's fall

'Where are the rest?' Families seek answers after Sednaya prison's fall