Following more than five decades of repression under the Assad regime, these artists are seizing the moment of cultural revival.

is the first in the country’s five-year transitional period and replaces the interim government that was formed shortly after Bashar Assad was removed from power in early December. The Cabinet ...

Oscar-nominated Syrian director Feras Fayyad on the fall of Bashar al-Assad, the dictator who ordered Fayyad's imprisonment ...