TDA supported the Syrian Memory Initiative through a social and cultural program that tells the contemporary history of Syria through verbal narrations of figures who lived through that period in the cities of Al-Bab and Azaz in the northern and eastern countryside of Aleppo.
The initiative spanned six sessions from 5 September 2021 until 3 December 2021, in partnership and cooperation with Al Domary Café. The session covered the social and cultural history of that particular region in the sixties, seventies and eighties of the last century, with the attendance of 260 participants.
The first and second sessions covered the sixties and seventies decades, and the significance of events that took place in the country during that time. Former detainee, Abdulaziz Medlej also shared his experience of his imprisonment in Palmyra prison. You can find the two sessions at the following link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xp2eeqdNMFo
In the third session, Mr. Muhammad Al-Khalaf explained the history of Al-Bab city and its social dynamics in the sixties, in addition to its education history and political dynamics in that period. Furthermore, he spoke about his experience with the Communist Party. You can find the session at the following link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4FX1ylno6M
In the fourth session, poet and writer Mahmoud Tawil spoke about his experience in Palmyra prison, and the social and political dynamics in that period through his poems. President of Aleppo University in the liberated areas, Dr. Abdul Aziz Al-Daghim, was also hosted in the fifth session to talk about university education in the seventies and eighties.
In the sixth session, Palestinian researcher Ayman Abu Hashem held a symposium entitled: Palestinians of Syria between Two Dilemmas, Two Identities and Two Revolutions, and spoke about the situation of the Palestinians in Syria in the sixties until the beginning of the Syrian revolution.
The organizers of the “Syrian Memory” initiative are working to continue the initiative, and record more sessions on a voluntary basis, and continue to document these events that have taken place in Syria through the testimonies of their contemporaries.
