Volume 19 Τεύχος 11
Serious Syrian Memes
Like the rest of the internet, the Syrian memeverse is messy, argumentative, and prone to stupidity and hyperbole.
Nothing Stops Syrian Basketball
Coaching a youth sports team is a tough task as it is, but it gets much, much harder when the families of the players are dying in a civil war.
Who Loves Ya, Bashar?
In the Gardens of the Trocadéro in Paris, around 40 protestors with signs and whistles gathered around an enormous Syrian flag to show their support for the country’s president. In the photographs affixed to the signs, Bashar al-Assad wears a gray suit...
The Writing Is on the Wall
Tarek Algorhani launched a human-rights internet project centered around tagging anti-regime graffiti throughout the streets of Syria. In mid-October I called him up to ask how the fight was going.
Road to Ruin
The roots of the conflict in Syria stretch back centuries—namely to the battle between the Sunni Muslim majority and a mystical-Shia sect known as the Alawites. This timeline provides some context to the recent bloodletting and its supremely convoluted...
The VICE Guide to Syria
We have put together this guide in an attempt to condense the facts gleaned from thousands of pages of reference books, biographies, religious texts, firsthand accounts, reports, and other information that have informed "The Syria Issue." We could’ve...
Employees of the Month
Born and raised in Tennessee, Robert “Haji Memphis” King is a photographer and videographer who has documented almost every major conflict since the Bosnian War in the early 90s.