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Mental health concerns now surface across everyday life in Syria, from traumatized children to unemployed fathers avoiding friends because they cannot afford cafés or restaurants.
By Alex Simon, Lina Ghoutouk, Malak Shanawani and Samar Alumari.
syriauntold.com/2026/10/14/t…
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In Syria, mental health practitioners often lament how social stigma prevents Syrians from getting the help they need.
There's surely truth in this, especially in more conservative circles.
And yet, in our research, my @SynapsNetwork colleagues and I often saw the opposite 🧵
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Like its cover, "Syrians in the Shadow of War" is a collage.
It binds together 32 reports by our team @SynapsNetwork, drawing on over 3,000 interviews between 2017-24.
It orders them into six chapters, each tackling a question as relevant today as ever.
Here's a preview: 🧵
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In Lebanon, Israel's blanket evacuation orders are increasing the likelihood of large-scale casualties among civilians, not least women and children.
In theory, these orders imply that the targeted areas are mostly depopulated, but realities differ. 🧵
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One war can hide another. Indeed, Lebanon isn't a sideshow of the ongoing face-off across the Persian Gulf. It is a full-blown battlefield in its own right, where Israel has goals that are distinct and equally ambitious. 🧵
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ما السبيل لمساعدة اللاجئين السوريين في العودة إلى ديارهم؟
إن السؤال مُلحّ وبديهي: فكثير من السوريين يرغبون في العودة، والدول المضيفة تطالب بذلك بإلحاح، غير أن هذه الحكومات نفسها كثيرًا ما تضع عراقيل جديدة في طريقهم.
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Globally, migration policies appear increasingly unmoored from any logic beyond that of racist scapegoating.
Syrian refugees are in the eye of this storm. Our latest @SynapsNetwork follows as they navigate it, with limited information and even less help
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Almost a year into Syria's transition, what has become of the millions who fled their country's war?
Since December, we @SynapsNetwork interviewed dozens of actual and prospective returnees in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, and Turkey.
A few of our takeaways: 🧵
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Syrian refugees in Lebanon currently face a bizarre predicament, which sums up the inadequate—and easily improved—state of UNHCR’s return programming. 🧵
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Orient XXI interview with @PeterHarling on Beirut. Full of truly interesting insights. Two come to mind: “Beirut is built on the Mediterranean and yet, bizarrely, it is not Mediterranean in character.” How true. And, “[p]lants tell us the story of a city whose more authentic, intimate sides are always the most difficult to reach,” in light of the fact that “[e]ven the beautiful trees that line Beirut’s streets are symptomatic of a globalized urban fabric.” Whole thing here: orientxxi.info/magazine/beir…
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إن رفع العقوبات ضروري لإحياء اقتصاد سوريا، لكنه ليس كافيا بحد ذاته. في هذا المقال يوضح الباحث في شبكة سينابس أليكس سايمون @AlexGSimon العوائق الداخلية التي يجب على دمشق إزالتها لإطلاق عملية التعافي.
#اقتصاد_سوريا #رفع_العقوبات_عن_سوريا
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ماذا يمكن لسوريا أن تتوقع من رفع العقوبات الاقتصادية؟
يعتمد ذلك على مدى تعامل دمشق مع القيود الداخلية التي تعيق اقتصادها، لا سيما الفساد، والعوائق البيروقراطية، والتشريعات المتخلفة، والغموض السائد.
كما يجب على سوريا أن تعيد إطلاق عملية التعافي من الداخل.
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This year, I will shed light on invisible victims in Syria and advocate inclusive justice.
I will draw on skills gained from @SynapsNetwork—an organization that shaped who I am.
I am eager to learn from the incredible TIMEP team and always grateful to my people: the Syrians.
⭐️@Linaagho is a Syrian researcher and human rights specialist with over a decade of experience in the humanitarian and research sectors. She aims to advocate for the rights of Syria’s invisible victims.
Learn more about Lina: timep.org/author/linaghoutou…
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What's needed to restart Syria's economy? Sanctions relief, to be sure, but also:
1⃣ functioning property markets
2⃣ clear legal frameworks
3⃣ explicit policies on trade, borders, etc
4⃣ hard data, and channels for sharing it
More here, @SynapsNetwork
synaps.network/en/post/syria…
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Syria now is a whirlwind of daily events: some hopeful, others ominous.
Understanding them means slowing down and looking back, not just to 2011 but decades before.
@SynapsNetwork mapped deep, structural factors shaping the transition
synaps.network/en/post/mappi…
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What to make of Syria's transition, in light of the two recent rounds of vicious sectarian violence?
My answers bring in a historical perspective as well as the regional dimension.
Thank you @CarnegieMEP and @BeirutCalling!
carnegieendowment.org/middle…
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In an interview, @PeterHarling discusses the fate of religious communities in the Syrian transformation.
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In an interview, @PeterHarling discusses Syria's religious communities in the country's transition, in particular the relationship between the Sharaa regime and minorities, in the shadow of the legacy of the Assad regime and its treatment of minorities, at Diwan: carnegieendowment.org/middle…
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The new round of sectarian attacks that Syria is currently witnessing, on Druze areas in Damascus and the South, are very different, in nature and implications, from the anti-Alawite pogroms that occurred earlier this year. 🧵
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La région MENA est devenue totalement dépendante des importations pour nourrir sa population. C'est pourtant là que l’humanité a appris à faire pousser les céréales...
Article publié sur @SynapsNetwork
✍️@AlexGSimon & Monica Basbous
orientxxi.info/magazine/medi…
