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Dec 10, 2024 | 
dawnmena.org | Ammar Azzouz
The kingdom of fear has collapsed. For years, images of Bashar al-Assad and his family have been everywhere in Syria—on cars, inside shops, in classrooms, in hospitals. At my university in Homs, I remember, Assad's framed photo was even inside every professor's office. The kingdom of fear in Syria meant we could not speak. "We are treated like animals, with humiliation," a woman in Homs told me few years ago.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
msn.com | Ammar Azzouz
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
msn.com | Ammar Azzouz
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Ammar Azzouz
It happened so fast. In the evening, about 9:30pm UK time (30 minutes after midnight in Homs), I spotted the first video indicating that my home city was finally free from Bashar al-Assad and his forces. Then a friend shared a link of a man livestreaming from the New Clock Tower Square in Homs. I heard the zaghroutas of women; the chants of men: “There is no for ever. There is no for ever.
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Dec 8, 2024 | 
ft.com | Ammar Azzouz
The writer is a research fellow at the School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
tolerance.ca | Ammar Azzouz
By Ammar Azzouz, British Academy Research Fellow, University of Oxford
The lightning-fast capture, by Syrian rebels, of large swaths of northern Syria, including the war-torn country’s second-largest city, Aleppo, and the strategically important city of Hama further south, is a body blow for the regime of Bashar al-Assad. The rebels are now pushing on further south towards my home city of Homs.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
theconversation.com | Ammar Azzouz
The lightning-fast capture, by Syrian rebels, of large swaths of northern Syria, including the war-torn country’s second-largest city, Aleppo, and the strategically important city of Hama further south, is a body blow for the regime of Bashar al-Assad. The rebels are now pushing on further south towards my home city of Homs.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
blogs.lse.ac.uk | Ammar Azzouz
Why do people choose to move from their homes? What are searching for? And to what destination do they go? In his book Guest Privileges: Queer Lives and Finding Home in the Middle East, Gaar Adams traces these questions by following the lives of LGBTQ+ migrants in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). He meets there with migrants from Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Yemen, Filipin and more, reflecting on the rich diversity, and the multi-culturalism that make the Gulf Estates.
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Mar 11, 2024 | 
tandfonline.com | Ammar Azzouz
If it was not Palestine, it would have been different. But it is Palestine. Silence. Everyone is watching. From their tiny mobile screens, in their doomscrolling, they watch what Palestinians are showing us, risking their lives to make the world see, in case the world cares. They show a life under siege and occupation that manifests itself through everyday layers of suffering, trauma, and pain—all accumulating for decades.
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Feb 21, 2024 | 
theconversation.com | Ammar Azzouz
Cities are like archives. Through their architecture, street names, monuments, plaques and cultural heritage sites, we learn about what remains of the past. But who is remembered in public spaces, and who is kept forgotten? To diversify the histories revealed in these places, there are attempts around the world to give voice to hidden stories. This includes an increasing interest in representing the memory of LGBTQ communities, often absent from the public realm.
