Confused about what is happening in Syria?

Weaving our Worlds has monthly study in struggle conversations. Below is our list of some readings & resources on the Syrian revolution, Syria and the left, Syria and imperialisms, and diverse left perspectives from and on Syria.

A person facing away from the camera carrying a spray can in front of a wall with the Syrian Independence Flag and the Palestinian Flag spraypainted on it.

Videos/Podcasts:

  1. After the Fall of Assad: The Struggle for a Free Syria with Joseph Daher, Leila al-Shami, Yasser Munif, and Shireen Akram-Boshar. Haymarket, December 2024
  2. Syria in Transition, The First 45 Days with Katty Alhayek, Rabie Nasser, Basileus Zeno. Jadaliyya, January 2025.
  3. What Comes Next? Unpacking the Post-Assad Transition in Syria. The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy, January 2025
  4. No one has a national interest in a unilateral declaration of Syria’s future with Omar S. Dahi. Makdisi Street, December 2024 [Also as Podcast https://open.spotify.com/episode/1ZrZQHPEnE9RCscZ2oLihQ?si=90b687f745aa44cb ]
  5. Rojava Under Pressure with Rohilat Afrin, Foza Yusuf, Shiraz Hemo. Women Defend Rojava, December 2024
  6. Rise and Fall of Assad’s Syria with Bassam Haddad. Dig Podcast, December 2024
  7. Revolutionary Defeat and the Future of Struggle in Syria —and Beyond with Yassin al-Haj Saleh. Haymarket, October 2023
  8. The Syrian Revolution: Between the Politics of Life and the Geopolitics of Death with Yasser Munif. Afikra podcast, June 2021

Articles after the fall of Assad:

  1. From Syria to Palestine, liberation comes from below. Joseph Daher December 2024
  2. Ongoing Post on Syria after Assad. Bassam Haddad, December 2024.
  3. Forever is Over: On the Fall of Bashar Al-Assad. Elia Ayoub, December 2024
  4. Declaration of Syrian Women’s Council. Women Defend Rojava, December 2024
  5. How the Left Failed Syria: Everything a Leftist needs to know on the Syrian Revolution. Fight for a Future, December 2024
  6. Will Kurds Survive in the New Syria? Matt Broomfield, December 2024
  7. The Kurdish struggle is central to Syria’s future. Joseph Daher, December 2024
  8. Syria Now. As’ad Abukhalil, December 2024
  9. Why Israel’s vision for a ‘New Syria’ threatens the entire Arab region. Mohammad Abu Rumman, January 2025

Older articles with political context:

  1. The Liquid Imperialism That Engulfed Syria. Yassin al-Haj Saleh, September 2023
  2. Normalizing Bashar al-Assad’s Regime: Syria, the Arab League, and the Counter-Revolutionary Process. Joseph Daher, June 2023
  3. The Case of Syria’s Communes. Leila Al-Shami, March 2021
  4. Statement of Free Syrians in solidarity with the Palestinian people. Intersectional Syria, November 2023
  5. Syria in Flames with Leila Al-Shami and Robin Yassin-Kassab. May 2016
  6. Imperialism is Multiple, So Should be Our Solidarities: On the Need for Post-Post-Colonialism. Sahar Amarir, February 2023
  7. Reflections of an Anti-Imperialist after Ten Years of Debate. Gilbert Achcar, June 2021
  8. Syria and the Left An interview with Yasser Munif. Jacobin, January 2017