For over a decade, Rojava has represented one of the most ambitious political experiments that has arisen from the ruins of the Syrian civil war. Driven by a utopian vision of grassroots democracy and ...

In 2014, when David Graeber and others began claiming that a genuine anti-capitalist revolution was occurring in Syrian Kurdistan, the healthy reaction was scepticism. After all, the initiators of ...

Maryam Ebrahimi’s documentary about a home for survivors of the war in northern Syria is tender, gentle and incredibly moving ...

Rojava is going through a very difficult time; its future is not clear at the moment. However what is clear is that there will either be genocide or compromise. What is currently going on in Rojava ...

Rojava, the Kurdish-majority liberated zone in northern Syria, is the location of a unique experiment in grassroots, participatory democracy. It is undergoing a profound social revolution that ...

Power vacuum left by the war has allowed Kurds to create a secular, multicultural community As world leaders grapple with how to end the Syrian war, most people in the west are struggling to look ...

In 2011, in the context of the Arab Spring, a civil war began in Syria, pitting various armed groups against President Bashar al-Assad’s regime. Rapidly, a Kurdish-majority coalition led by the ...

The Kurdish people have sacrificed 13,000 lives in the fight against ISIS. Progressives should support their effort to build a secure base for direct democracy, feminism, and pluralism. SDF soldiers ...

As we mentioned in the first article of the series, “Journalism in Rojava”, many of what we called “independent” media platforms emerged in Rojava after 2011. These media are mostly small outlets in ...

At long last, the operation to liberate Mosul from the Islamic State (ISIS) has begun. As an unlikely and uneasy coalition of the Iraqi Army, Shia militias, and Kurdish peshmerga grinds toward the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Perhaps the last place you would expect to find a thriving experiment in direct democracy is Syria. But ...