© SyrianBoy Archive / R. al-Khalil, 2024
Independent journalism, child-led reporting, and on-the-ground storytelling from a network of 140 contributors — published every week without interruption since 2011.
© SyrianBoy Archive / M. Othman, 2025
After a third pump failure at the Idlib station, our correspondents spent two days with families queuing from before dawn. Their notes — and the small economies of waiting they invented — are this week's lead report.
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Forty-two photographs by contributor Bilal al-Hamoud, made between 22 February and 4 March in a village of 1,400 on the Syrian coast, where the winter storms of 2024 finally relented.
© SyrianBoy Archive / R. al-Khalil, 2024
For fourteen years, Umm Mahmoud kept thirty-two cassette tapes in a tin biscuit box under her bed in Deir ez-Zor. Inside were the voices of her husband, her four brothers, and a cousin who never came back from Hama. Last spring, she let our oral history team digitize them. The result is the longest single recording in our archive — and one of the most difficult we have ever published.
The journalists from SyrianBoy arrived in our village in 2014, when nobody else came. They wrote our names. They came back in 2016, when nobody else came. They wrote our names again. My son is named after one of them now — Ahmad, after the photographer who took his first picture. When he grows up, I want him to know that someone was listening.
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