Between the rhetoric of "modern management" and the reality of declining services, a growing debate is emerging about the future of the health and education sectors, and the limits of the state's role in guaranteeing basic services. At a time when the cost of living is becoming increasingly...

A French court on Monday convicted cement company Lafarge of financing the Islamic State group and other armed groups in Syria to ensure its plant remained operational between 2013 and 2014. The court ordered the company to pay fines totaling more than €5.6 million for its Syrian...

Communication continues between the Syrian Ministry of Religious Endowments (Awqaf) and the Turkish Presidency of Religious Affairs (Diyanet) to obtain Ottoman archival documents pertaining to endowments in Syria. This is aimed at inventorying all endowed properties and confirming their...

To stand today as an observer of the Syrian scene means to be confronted with a torrent of contradictions that necessitate a careful re-examination of the concept of contemporary urban and economic "logic." We stand today at a crossroads between a discourse that encourages "small projects"...