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Bremen Peace Award: Laudation and Speech of Thanks

On November 27, 2015 Adopt a Revolution has been awarded with the International Bremen Peace Award 2015 in the category "Exemplary Initiative". The two other prize winners are the Somalian Blogger Farah Abdullahi Abdi and the Irish mediator Mary Montague. Read here the laudatory speech and our speech of thanks!…
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Survey: Reasons to Leave and to Return

In 2015 hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees reached Europe. But instead of talking to them, many just talk about them. We conducted a survey and asked: What are reasons for leaving? Who is responsible? What can we do? Read our results here.
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Survey amongst Syrian refugees in Germany – Backgrounds

On October 7 at the "Bundespressekonferenz" in Berlin, we present the results of the first major survey amongst Syrian refugees in Germany. In the past two weeks, we surveyed nearly 900 Syrian refugees why they have fled and under what conditions they could imagine to return to Syria. Here you…
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Majority of Syrian refugees in Europe are running from the Assad regime, not Isis, says survey

First survey of Syrian refugees in Europe to be presented at Federal Press Conference in Berlin, Germany shows most want to return, but not under Assad. A no-fly zone would help more stay. The main cause of Syrians coming to Europe is to flee the violence of the government of Bashar al-Assad,…
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Who’s Afraid of Razan Zaitouneh? – Karam Nachar

There was a time, not too long ago, when a young woman headed one of the largest networks of Syrian activists working against the Assad regime. She had blue eyes and uncovered blond hair; she spoke English and held a degree in law; and she was a staunch secularist. But…
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Take action: Where are the Douma 4?

Tuesday, the 9th of December, marks the first anniversary of the abduction of the four human rights activists, Razan Zaitouneh, Samira al-Khalil, Wael Hamadeh and Nazem Hammadi, called the "Douma 4". You can do something about this. Put up this picture on Facebook and Twitter as cover photos and use…
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Syrian Activists Challenge Mainstream Media: Daesh (IS) and Assad are The Same Thing – Syria Untold

The self-proclaimed Islamic State (also known as Daesh) has been the center of the media’s attention for quite some time. It has the whole world gripped by fear by its grisly spectacles and medieval executions. However, the gruesome terror of the radical militia seems to obscure an equally ruthless antagonist:…
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Razan Zeitouneh’s missing light – Reem Zeitouneh

Ten months have passed and Razan’s email light is still red! It was not easy for me to hear; I did not believe it, and I do not want to believe. Only the idea that Razan disappeared in the Eastern Ghouta area in Duma close to Damascus – at the…
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The struggle for Kobane: An example of selective solidarity – Leila Al Shami

The heroic resistance of the people of Kobane in fighting the onslaught of the Daesh (ISIS) fascists since mid-September, has led to a surge of international solidarity. A multitude of articles and statements have been written and protests have been held in cities across the world. Kurds have flooded across…
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IS, ISIS or Daesh? Turbulences in the Alphabet Soup – Bente Scheller

ISIS lives off bare bestiality. While their opponents are paralyzed with fear, the work of satirists flourishes. Meanwhile Bashar al-Assad tries to present himself as the lesser evil in Syria. “Daesh – May their ‘glory’ be of short duration” - Syrian intellectual Yassin Al Haj Saleh exclaims in the documentary…