Even though the closures were lifted after just one day due to public outcry, it sent a clear and worrying signal to Christians about growing restrictions on their cultural and social freedoms. On ...

Syrian Culture Minister Mohammad Yassin Saleh said on Monday that Syria’s selection as Guest of Honor at the Riyadh International ...

Syria’s Minister of Culture, Mohammad Yassin Saleh, and Saudi Arabia’s Minister of Culture, Prince Badr bin Abdullah bin Farhan Al ...

This is the third in a series co-produced by Syria Deeply and Hyperallergic investigating the visual and cultural responses to the crisis in Syria. The day Raghad Mardini first saw a crumbling Ottoman ...

Held for the first time since ​Bashar al-Assad was ousted, this year's Damascus International Book Fair reflects deep changes ...

Bookshelves laden with Arabic works are pushed aside, chairs and cushions rearranged and microphones tested. In a loft above the Berlin rooftops, Muhannad Qaiconie and team are preparing their unique ...

Syrian Culture Minister Mohammed Saleh was criticized this week after a video surfaced showing him at a historic Orthodox church with Islamic chanter Al-Mu’tasim Billah Al-Assali, who performed an ...

(RNS) — As Jews around the world were preparing for the new Hebrew year last week, Rabbi Asher Lopatin stood in Damascus looking at a different type of new beginning. While he visited Syria for the ...

President of the sisterly Syrian Arab Republic Ahmed Al Sharaa met today with HE Minister of Culture Sheikh Abdulrahman bin Hamad Al-Thani, currently visitin ...

A group of Syrian-American Jews have registered a nongovernmental organization in Syria in a bid to restore Jewish heritage in a country where the once-sizable religious minority has shrunk to almost ...

Syria's newly appointed Foreign Minister Asaad Hassan al-Shibani during a press conference after a meeting between the Syrian leadership and a Ukrainian delegation to help strengthen ties between the ...