Six years later sequel of "The Communes of Rojava" (2018), made in the face of some of the most dire attacks yet faced by the pluralist, women-led, radically democratic project in North and East Syria ...

The Communes of Rojava: A Model In Societal Self Direction (2018) Movie Director Neighbor Democracy NR 42 min Jul 6th, 2018 ...

Power vacuum left by the war has allowed Kurds to create a secular, multicultural community As world leaders grapple with how to end the Syrian war, most people in the west are struggling to look ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Details have emerged of how women in towns and villages across northern ...

The resilience of the Kurdish people who fight for their survival and autonomy serves as a testament to the enduring battle against colonialism, fundamentalism, and authoritarianism in this region and ...

Out of repression has emerged one of the world’s most interesting experiments in democracy. And by democracy, what is meant is not the formal capitalist variety of elections every few years in which ...

The economy in Western Kurdistan (Rojava) has been exposed to plunder and exploitation on a large scale by the Syrian state, which controlled the country's entire resources, rendering the community ...

With images of chaos, conflict, and a seemingly endless parade of horrors dominating the mainstream media, the image of Syria that dominates the popular mind is a kind of hell on earth. But Syria ...

Rojava, the Kurdish-majority liberated zone in northern Syria, is the location of a unique experiment in grassroots, participatory democracy. It is undergoing a profound social revolution that ...

Hawzhin Azeez is member of Kobane Reconstruction Board in the largely Kurdish area of northern Syria and a former politics lecturer at Newcastle university. In Rojava, a profoundly democratic and ...