🚨OUT NOW: New episode of BULAQ featuring @aliamalek.bsky.social talking about McSweeney's 76: AFTERSHOCKS, a new anthology of Syrian literature from @mcsweeneys.net. Magazine here: store.mcsweeneys.net/products/mcs.... Episode here: lnk.to/GN89Oh.

Excited to be speaking with my brilliant colleague @aliamalek.bsky.social tomorrow at the Newmark School of Journalism about Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza

From a conversation today on ArabLit. arablit.org/2025/01/28/r... Read work by Rawaa Sonbol & many other contemporary Syrian authors in AFTERSHOCKS, ed. @aliamalek.bsky.social.

The Syrian people have suffered and now have a chance to build a better future, not perfect just theirs @aliamalek.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/01/26/o...

"As Syria takes its first faltering steps after Mr. al-Assad’s fall, it’s imperative that Syrians are not written out of their story again." If you're going to read one thing on Syria (and even if you've read too many to count), read this by @aliamalek.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/01/26/o...

I've known Alia Malek since our time at J school decades sgo, ,+profiled her book on #Syria, THE HOME THAT WAS OUR COUNTRY. And when Assad fell, there was no one else I wanted to hear from. Her writing here is stunning. Syrians in Turkey Agonize Over a Return Home www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/m...

“It’s easy to look at a dark past & warn of a dark future, but we shouldn’t mistake that for seeing the future. What did we learn from Syria? We misread it, condemn it to misery when we don’t listen to the people at the heart of it” aliamalek.bsky.social from Damascus www.nytimes.com/2025/01/26/o...

Save every document. Save every shred of evidence. Celebrate and then record accounts of returnees, survivors, witnesses. It seemed like a pipe dream, but justice was always a long game. “It’s the turn of the doctor” and his allies to face justice. #Syria

“The government would do anything to hold on to power, including fomenting the chaos it claimed it was combating.” Read @aliamalek.bsky.social—her books, too. She’s brilliant and kind. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/26/o...

This superb piece from Alia Malek in NYT was the most-read article by our newsletter subscribers. If you want to be exposed to more great #longform pieces like this, consider subscribing at theslowscroll.com. You'll get a daily list of what I think are the best recent #longreads in your inbox.

Started reading this book edited by @aliamalek.bsky.social. A chilling look at life in Syria before the fall of the Assad regime through the eyes of those who lived it and expressed the best way they could.

Out now! Discover this brilliant (and shockingly timely) collection of Syrian Fiction today!

Ok fine. Did it.