Show more During the conflict in Syria, it seems incredible that there are still writers expressing their experiences through poetry. News journalist Mike Embley meets and speaks to Syrian poets ...

Children at a school in Damascus which reopened last month following the toppling of Bashar al-Assad’s regime - Chris McGrath/Getty Images Europe Syria ... plans to remove poetry about women ...

The poet says that while censorship in a dictatorship is nothing new, the same in a democracy feels like entering a new totalitarianism ...

Syria’s new leaders have been criticised after they announced plans to remove poetry about women and love from schools under a new “extremist” curriculum. Other controversial revisions include ...