Issue 485 of New Internationalist

September 2015

Syria's good guys

The story of how Rafif Jouejati organized a survey in a warzone, and the answers she got.

No development process succeeds without the participation of those it targets, argues Maggie Black.

Daniel Adamson interviews Raed Saleh of The White Helmets, who have pulled thousands of Syrians from war's rubble.

A tour of Syria’s creative output in the early days of the uprising and ongoing cultural resistance.

Nonviolent activists are holding out in Syria, despite the destruction. Do not abandon them, says Daniel Adamson.

Thousands of unknown activists have risked their lives to defy extremism and violence. Daniel Adamson interviews some of them.

Syria's civil war has inflicted a humanitarian crisis, expansive exodus of the population and a severe death toll. New...

Yara Badr, Mazen Darwish’s wife, says she always knew she’d have to share him with the rest of Syria.

We must stand in solidarity with Syria’s human rights defenders, says Salman Rushdie.

ISIS’ savagery must not blind us to the bravery of civil-society activists, says Hania Mourtada.