Lydia Wilson

Lydia Wilson is a Research Associate at the Computer Laboratory and in Middle Eastern Studies at Cambridge and a Research Fellow at the Centre for the Resolution of Intractable Conflict at Oxford. She is an Editor at the Cambridge Literary Review and a Contributing Editor at Newlines, and recently presented a BBC series on the history of writing. (March 2021)

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Sudden Monsters

Dima Wannous’s fiction asks where the boundaries lie between individual and collective fears in Syria, a country traumatized by violence.

The Frightened Ones

by Dima Wannous, translated from the Arabic by Elisabeth Jaquette

March 25, 2021 issue

Among Syria’s Exiles in Jordan

Although the part Jordan has played as a war refugee destination has been less publicized, its contribution among Syria’s Arab neighbors has been extremely significant. Some estimates put the number of Syrian refugees at 1.3 million.

January 8, 2020

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