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In 2013, Aleppo province was engulfed in violence. The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and affiliated Shi'a militias executed a campaign of massacres in the rural areas located on the eastern fringes of the province. The violence caused an exodus from this region, eventually dissipating local rural communities entirely. What can explain such extreme and brutal political violence perpetrated at a local level in the east Aleppo countryside throughout 2013? To find an answer, I analyse the personal accounts of those who witnessed the violence and YouTube videos. Taken together, these sources provide a visceral description of the massacres-in particular the summary executions in the village of Rasm al-Nafl, as a case study of extreme violence in one of the poorest rural areas of Syria. Problematizing mono-causal sectarian explanations, I argue that a deeper non-sectarian complex of rurality and a process of subaltern othering in combination with opportunism, governmental retribution, and strategic military concern for territorial control in order to secure alternative supply routes to Aleppo, ultimately led to the eradication of life and cultural genocide in these rural areas.

The arrival of the Digital Age added a new way to preserve memories of
war and conflict. These developments beg deeper reflection on the role of cyberspace
and how memories of conflict have become publicly and collectively owned, shared
and mediated in the digital space. Cyberspace offers a context for the deposit of digital
memorials for victims and casualties of war from any adversary in a conflict. The final
workshop in a three-part exploratory series entitled Virtual Zones of Peace and Conflict
is the basis for this special section, which deals with digital memory. The three articles
were selected because they reflect on the role of the Digital Age in peace and conflict
studies, and specifically focus on the intersection between online (virtual) and offline
(physical) realities and how cyberspace forms an enabling environment for digital
memorializations.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Contents -- Illustration -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part One Documentary film-making in Syria -- 1 Masters of Syrian documentary -- 2 Inspired by the masters, a new generation -- 3 Documentaries for social change, the case of Bassel Shehadeh -- Part Two Eyewitnesses of a revolution -- 4 Syrian emergency cinema and YouTube -- 5 The view from below: Video activism from the North -- 6 Politics of the image: Relations with international media -- 7 To tell the world! Evidencing war crimes and virtual reality -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index -- Index of Films.

A three-language book Swedish, English and Arabic, that includes the information about the project entitled: Photograph and Film for freedom and Democracy, that funded by Swedish Institute, and Organized by Ibn Rushd Association and pertnership with Yemeni Idintity Organization and Lund University, among other partners. Also, it contains the thirty photos that have been shown in Yemen Art Exhibition, Malmo, Lund and Kristianstad.