Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies
6/5/2024
Press Release
Launch of Syrian Memory
The Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies has launched syrianmemory.org, a digital archive documenting the events of the Syrian revolution on Monday, 6 May 2024 in Doha. The website hosts a comprehensive database equipped with specialized search engines that serves as an archive for research linked to the Syrian revolution. The platform is the product of a research project that began in 2019, as part of the ACRPS’s endeavour to provide reliable sources for the pivotal events in contemporary Syrian history and the Arab region for specialized researchers and academics.
The website exhibits verified diaries, documentation of local and international civil, military and political events, across all Syrian governorates between 2011 and 2015. It also includes the first visual library of the oral history of the Syrian revolution, amounting to more than 2,500 hours and covering a wide time span of events, topics, and diverse witnesses.
The project required the research team to sift through millions of video clips and hundreds of thousands of documents and online content published during the Syrian revolution, with painstaking efforts to verify the information and establish data related to locations and participants. The visual library is also the first of its kind to archive hundreds of thousands of video clips and verified documents, which depict various events related to the revolution, regarding various entities, political bodies, military organizations, associations, local government councils, revolutionary media bodies, revolutionary activists, and media professionals.
The main archival collections contain a large number of documents, most of which are non-governmental, and belong to local revolutionary civil institutions, military factions, political organizations, and various other forces. Of more than 100,000 verified documents, about 50,000 documents will be displayed along with basic data
In addition, the platform contains more than 11,200 issues of Syrian non-governmental journals, making this platform the broadest reference for published periodicals since the outbreak of the revolution. It also provides data for more than 10,000 military, civilian, and governmental entities that have appeared since 2011, and descriptions of more than 13,000 personalities who played a role in the events through diaries, documents, videos, and testimonies. About 6,000 of them will be accessible.
The platform also includes documentation and data for hundreds of battles with defined parties and goals, hundreds of chants from demonstrations, and more than 650 records of musical arts, as well as a complete catalogue of the famous Kafranbel paintings.
For more information, visit the Syrian Memory website: https://syrianmemory.org
