When the earth quakes
When the earthquake struck Turkey and Syria in February 2023, Alessio Paduano was there on the ground, during a disaster that was essentially a cross-border catastrophe in a geopolitically sensitive...
No Way Out, a multimedia documentary on the 10 years of war in Syria
Published on March 5, 2021 Ten years after the start of the war in Syria, 6.6 million people have been displaced by the fighting and violence tearing the country apart....
Regaining a sense of the humanitarian imperative
You have to wake people up; to revolutionize their way of identifying things. You’ve got to create images they won’t accept; oblige them to express their outrage; force them to...
Crossing glances on Syria
Interview Apart from the protagonists of the Syrian conflict, three categories of actors and observers have formed a more or less tacit alliance: humanitarians, researchers and journalists. We asked three...
In the closed door of Eastern Ghouta
Abdulmonam Eassa was born in Damascus in 1995. Until early 2018 he was based in Hammouria, Eastern Ghouta, in the agricultural countryside near Damascus, 13 km north-east of the capital. When...
Aleppo, an insider’s view
Director’s note Waad al-Kateab was a young Syrian woman living in Aleppo when war broke out in 2011. During the bombings, everyday life goes on. Her film captures the daily...
Perspectives on a fractured world
Photos and Captions © William Daniels Interview for Humanitarian Alternatives by Boris Martin, Editor-in-Chief Humanitarian Alternatives – Since you started out in photography almost twenty years ago, you have focused on social...
Reunited
Lâm Duc Hiên is a child of the Mekong. Born in Laos in 1966, he had to flee the country in 1975. He then spent two years in refugee camps...
Lebanon: healthcare takes to the road
Photos and captions • © Didier Bizet https://www.didierbizet.com The economic and health crisis in Lebanon is worsening by the day. Though the country is now enjoying fragile peace, the wars...
Impacts of the Syrian crisis in Lebanon: civil society as a vector of solidarity
By hosting 1,500,000 Syrian refugees, Lebanon assumes its share of responsibility, maybe far beyond its capacities. Explaining the impact of this conflict on the “country of the cedar”, Kamel Mohanna...
The aid regime to Syria: a failed localisation
Shaped by their bureaucratic habits and destabilised by the unexpected complexity of the conflict, international organisations and NGOs alike neglected the local level. They thus deprived themselves of vital forces,...
Syria: will diplomacy put an end to the massacre?
Sami Aoun engages here in a difficult exercise of geopolitical forecasting. First of all because in Syria, even more than in other contexts, facts speed up and multiple, sometimes secret,...