Editorial
This issue also includes book reviews;
Farzand Omar reviews the fictional book titled
‘Unity Pampers its Victims’ by the young writer
Dara Abdullah, while Abed Al-Haj shares
his views on the political book ‘Democratic
Transformation ... Syria as an Example’ by
Radwan Ziadeh.
In our journalistic reports section, our
reporters from Delta-N investigated two
issues. The first report, titled ‘Ingenuity in the
midst of pain’, addresses the emergent cultural
and artistic projects in the shadow of Syria’s
destruction. By interviewing researchers from
the ‘Syrian Centre for Policy Research’, the
second report discusses the role of researchoriented think-tanks in the development of
Syria.
the Syrian child’, in the hopes of publishing the
future chapters of her study in our next issue.
In our final section titled ‘Visual materials’,
we have selected pieces that range from
photography to caricatures. Young artists
who have contributed their work to this issue
are: Rami Makki, Samarah Salam, Mustafa
Dabbas, Hani Abbas, Du’aa Nashar, Osama
Hawijeh, Bana Makhous, and Murhaf Youcef.
Talal Al-Mayhani, Farzand Omar, Husain Brro
The Editorial Board
This issue also encompasses six dense
research papers. In his study titled ‘The
intellectual, the opposition, and public affairs in
Syria’, Mohammad Dibo presents an in-depth
rereading of the state of social and political
affairs in Syria by arguing that a number of
Syrian intellectuals are ignorant of the current
Syrian reality –the extended version of this
study will be published in July by the Centre for
Thought and Public Affairs. Firas Al-Hawat’s
gripping historical study ‘Ghilan Al-Dimashqi
in various contexts’ will also be published
in Delta-N’s first issue. In a shift to the arts,
Sulaf Alloush’s study sheds light on the effects
of technology (Facebook) on poetry, while
Victorious Shams's study focuses on three
examples of how cinema has allowed the
Palestinian cause to become a more public
affair. In another study, Azzam Al-Kassir gives
a focused critical reading on calls to implement
Shari'a that sweep across Syria and the
Middle East. Finally, we publish the first part of
a study by Yasmine Ayoud titled ‘Determining
factors on the formation of cultural identity in
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