Damascus is hosting its first international book fair since Bashar Assad fell, and publishers say censorship has almost ...

Hani Al Sawah, a rap artist known as Al Darwish, has returned to Syria after 13 years to perform his political songs for the first time without the Assad dynasty in power. Al Darwish fled the ...

Syrian rapper Al Darwish returns home to perform for first time in 13 years - ‘Never in my wildest dreams did I think I could ever return to Syria,’ says the musician who fled his country in 2012 ...

Under Mr Assad, publishing houses were regularly forced to pull books from their shelves; intelligence agencies would rifle through new collections. Unflattering biographies of Bashar were not ...