Simply months after the autumn of President Bashar al-Assad, Syria has been rocked by an eruption of violence. Coastal cities have become killing fields, with forces aligned with the federal government accused of massacring a whole bunch of civilians from non secular minorities.
The Syrian on-line house can also be plagued by misinformation – a part of an data struggle that’s inciting sectarian concern and deepening divisions, in a rustic nonetheless uncooked from years of civil struggle and a long time beneath a brutal regime.
Lead contributors:
Zaina Erhaim – Journalist
Ahmad Primo – Founder, Confirm Syria
Ola Suliman – Campaigns lead, The Syria Marketing campaign
Rim Turkmani – Syria analysis programme director, LSE
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The Trump White Home is waging an unprecedented crackdown on pro-Palestine activism on college campuses. Meenakshi Ravi studies on Mahmoud Khalil – a Columbia graduate and, in principle, everlasting US resident, who now faces deportation.
ICE’s PR blitz: Immigration raids as leisure
In Trump’s America, immigration enforcement isn’t simply coverage – it’s a spectacle. With ICE raids more and more staged for the cameras, and journalists given front-row entry to seize dramatic arrests, is it regulation and order or a made-for-TV efficiency?
The Listening Put up’s Tariq Nafi explores the media’s position in shaping the immigration debate.
That includes:
Patrick Wager-David – Host, PBD podcast
Michelle Garcia – Journalist and writer
Abraham Paulos – Deputy director, Black Alliance for Simply Immigration
