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Syria - سوريا

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Links

All links and categories below in no particular order, updated over time.

News, analysis, zines

Syria Untold
EA Worldview | Syria
Enab Baladi
The New Arab | Post-Assad Syria
New Lines Magazine | Syria
aNtiDoTe Zine | Syria
The Palestine Chronicle | Syria
Middle East Eye | Syria after Assad
ANF News | Rojava-Syria
Medya News | Syria
El Pais | Siria
UnHerd | Syria
Common Dreams | Syria
Syria Direct
The Kyiv Independent | Syria
Al Majalla | Syria
Al Jazeera | Syria
Al-Jumhuriya
Muslim Girl
UN News | Syria
TIMEP | Syria
Raseef22 English | Syria
New Internationalist | Syria
Daraj English
Mada | Syria
Jadaliyya | Syria
The Guardian | Syria
NPR | Syria
Syria in Transition
Justice Info | Syria
The New Humanitarian | Syria
France24 | Syria
Fair Observer | Middle East News

Radio

ARTA
Radio Rozana

Blogs

Aymenn’s Monstrous Publications (subscription required)
Qunfuz
Syria Freedom Forever - سوريا الحرية للأبد
EPCR | The Loop

Art and culture

ISIS Prisons Museum
The Markaz Review

Non government and inter-government organisations, non-profits and projects

Syrian Network for Human Rights
Justice For Life
Synergy Association For Victims
MENA Rights Group | Syria
GCR2P | Syria
ReliefWeb | Syria
Reporters Without Borders | Syria
Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of Expression
Women Now
The Syrian Centre for Legal Studies and Research
Madaniya

Human Rights organisations

Syria Justice and Accountability Centre (SJAC)
The Syria Campaign
Syrians for Truth and Justice

Advocacy

Committee to Protect Journalists | Syria
Syrian Center for Journalistic Freedoms

Education, history, research & investigation

The Syrian Memory Project
MENA Research Center
Bellingcat | Syria
The Syrian Revolution and on YouTube

People

Mai El-Sadany - Bluesky
Leila Al-Shami - Bluesky | Mastodon
Zaina Erhaim - zaina-erhaim.com
Rami Jarrah (Alexander Page) - Bluesky
Qusay Noor - Bluesky
Muhammad Najem - Bluesky
Nour Qormosh - Instagram
Suad Aldarra - Instagram
Yassin Al Haj Saleh - Twitter
Hanna Davis - Twitter
Mais Katt - Facebook | Website

Podcasts

Branch 251

Campaigns

Petition to Demand the Immediate Release of Poet Abdel Rahman Youssef Al-Qaradawi and an End to Transnational Repression

Archival

Local Coordination Committees in Syria (via archive.org)


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Viva Syria!!!

Syria Population: 25.3 Million

Let's all get everyone of the people onto these platforms/apps/websites to grow together (Most of these are on Bluesky via @)

The more united we all are in-person, & online the better. With each person on these, taking action, inspiring each other, & collaborating that makes us all stronger. Adding to the resistance with an extra person/people who can put any skills they have to use or be taught how to help. So please try these out, then get others on board, & recommend communities/organizations/people getting things done to follow/help out by doing with them

Recommendations:

(They all have entries about them on alternativeto.net as well)

  • Windows➡️Linux Mint @LinuxMint (Like Windows 10), Pop!_OS (Like MacOS), or Fedora Workstation @fedora.fosstodon
  • Android➡️LineageOS @lineageos.org, or GrapheneOS @grapheneos.org
  • Android App Stores➡️F-Droid, & Aurora Store
  • General Apps➡️Fossify apps, FUTO apps, & Proton apps
  • Chrome➡️Cromite, & Brave Browser
  • Cloud Services➡️OpenCloud https://opencloud.eu/en
  • Firefox➡️Zen Browser (Best productivity browser), & Librewolf
  • Obsidian➡️Memory
  • Reddit➡️Lemmy (Let's get people on this community, & others)
  • Discord➡️Revolt @revolt.chat
  • Twitter➡️Bluesky @bsky & Mastodon @joinmastodon
  • Slack/Telegram➡️Matrix (Via Element App) @matrix.org
  • Zoom➡️Jitsi Meet
  • Messages/Calls/File Sharing➡️Session @session-app
  • TikTok➡️Spark @sprk.so
  • Instagram➡️Flashes @flashes.blue (Android version comes the sooner the Creator hits their funding goal)
  • Facebook➡️Diaspora
  • YouTube➡️PeerTube @joinpeertube
  • Substack➡️Ghost @ghost.org
  • VRChat➡️Resonite @resonite.com (Can be played on Desktop without a VR Headset or Setup. Free on Steam as a fun way to pass time)

KDE, Tuxedo Computers, & e/OS/ make great open-source hardware.

Also a cool project to look into is Automotive Grade Linux for open-source cars. So no one tampers with what we drive

(If you have any questions, or want more recommendations let me know. Or use alternativeto.net for more alternatives to existing stuff)

You can do it. We can do it!! Getting all of us together here and those other platforms!! Let's rise and grow together!!!

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