The poster for the series "al-Qaysar – La Makan la Zaman." (Photo: screenshot from YouTube)
A year after the fall of Bashar Assad, Syrians are still searching for their disappeared. Television, meanwhile, has found its next storyline.This brutal gap between a justice system that has yet to perform its full function, and television fiction already in production, sums up the unease currently running through Syria's TV drama industry. The controversy is more than a simple aesthetic debate: it follows the fault lines of a country in transition, still waiting for the practical implementation of transitional justice that the new authorities have pledged to establish. How can stories of prisons, mass graves, and forced disappearances be addressed when institutions are teetering and judicial truth remains unfinished? Take a look back at the one year anniversary Syria’s disappeared: Stories of survival in a landscape of loss ...
A year after the fall of Bashar Assad, Syrians are still searching for their disappeared. Television, meanwhile, has found its next storyline.This brutal gap between a justice system that has yet to perform its full function, and television fiction already in production, sums up the unease currently running through Syria's TV drama industry. The controversy is more than a simple aesthetic debate: it follows the fault lines of a country in transition, still waiting for the practical implementation of transitional justice that the new authorities have pledged to establish. How can stories of prisons, mass graves, and forced disappearances be addressed when institutions are teetering and judicial truth remains unfinished? Take a look back at the one year anniversary Syria’s disappeared: Stories of survival in a landscape of loss ...
