Rime Allaf, Yassin Al Haj Saleh, and Joumana Seif in a conversation on Syrian activism and the revolution's impact on the world, on the occasion of the Museum of Activism’s launch in Berlin.

Rime Allaf is a Syrian-born writer and political analyst. In a wide-ranging conversation with Newlines’ Faisal Al Yafai, she recalls living through the end of the Hafez al-Assad era and traces the Bashar years from the initial optimism of Syrians, through the end of the Lebanon occupation and the Iraq War, to the start of the Syrian revolution.

10 years after the start of the conflict in Syria that started as civilians protests against the Assad regime, it is now a proxy war waged on many different fronts. 12 million Syrians – half the pre-conflict population - were displaced. Over 400,000 Syrians lost their lives in this crisis and the infrastructure is in shambles with no straight path forward.

My statement to the Permanent Missions at the United Nations in New York, on the 10th Anniversary of the Syrian Revolution.

The authors trace the origins and escalation of the conflict from 2011 protests in Deraa to the current state of widespread humanitarian devastation and displacement a decade later.

CMEC Director Charlotte Leslie presents the second podcast in a series marking the 10th anniversary of the Arab Spring. In this podcast, Charlotte examines the continuing tragedy of Syria with Simon Collis, UK Ambassador to Damascus in 2010 and Rime Allaf, the Syrian born writer and political analyst.

Kofi Annan presented Bashar al-Assad with "concrete proposals" to halt the unrest. Syrian analyst Rime Allaf, who is an associate fellow at Chatham House in London, is not optimistic.