L'improvvisa caduta del regime di Bashar al Assad in Siria costringe a confrontarsi con il silenzio che ha circondato per anni questa crisi, e allo stesso tempo a ripensare il modo di approcciare ...
Asmae Dachan
Asmae Dachan is an Italian-Syrian journalist, photographer, and writer.
She is a part-time lecturer in Multimedia Arabic at the University of Macerata and a counselor for the Order of Journalists of the Marche region. She contributes to various publications, including Avvenire, Confronti, Vita non Profit, Oasis, Senza Filtro, L’Espresso, Venerdì di Repubblica, and Valigia Blu, with a focus on the Middle East, human rights, interreligious dialogue, and labor issues. She has worked in Syria, Jordan, Turkey, Belgium, Greece, England, Ethiopia, and Tanzania.
She is a Knight of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, Peace Ambassador of the University of Switzerland for Peace, and a volunteer for the Italian Red Cross. She is a witness for the Centro Astalli (Jesuit Refugee Service in Italy) for the Journalism Focus project and the Literature and Exile project. She is the creator and author of the blog "Diario di Siria – Writing to rediscover the value of human life" and the podcast "Siria, guerra e gelsomini."
As an author, she has written award-winning novels and poetic collections recognized in various competitions. Her latest book is "Cicatrice su tela" (Castelvecchi publisher, May 2022), winner of the 2022 Nadia Toffa Prize.
A tredici anni dall'inizio delle violenze, che cosa rimane della Siria? Che fine ha fatto il movimento pacifico popolare che chiedeva riforme e libertà? Perché la Siria non trova più spazio nell'...
A little over ten years ago, the battle for control of Aleppo marked a turning point in the war in Syria: the reconquest of the city by the government of Bashar al Assad closed the phase of hope for t...
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