Syrian Histories

Syrian Histories is a collection of 120+ recorded interviews that address the culture and society of Syria in the decades preceding 2011. the interviews were conducted in Lebanon and Turkey in 2016 and 2017.

collectively, they present a cultural and social narrative of Syria, and offer Syrians the opportunity to contribute to the understanding of their own history.

the interviewees are as diverse as the topics discussed. among the women and men, youth and elderly interviewed are professors and illiterates, industrialists and bedouins, single mothers and polygamists, worshippers and atheists, Kurds, Assyrians, Ismailis and Sunnis, to name but a few.

the collection inspired a number of creative outputs, including:

> a book comprising six research studies grounded in the stories shared

> rehearsed readings of some of the stories, performed on various stages 

> a staged play, I am Not a Vase, performed by Syrian women in Lebanon and Sweden

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