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Editor's note
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Locals lounge outside crowded cafes in the sunbathed square, while energetic children playfully evade their parents' control. Shady respite is offered by historic souks, the covered marketplaces where political and religious divides are set aside, and thriving trade is the order of the day. The blare of car horns echo through narrow alleyways, mingling with the melody of the call to prayer which issues from the minarets of ancient mosques.
This would have been a familiar scene in Syria's cities. But as the country's conflict enters its seventh year, it is a painful memory of what has been lost. Two architects – Ammar Azzouz and Ataa Alsalloum – avoid feeling powerless by turning to the future. Here, they share their advice on how to revive their hometowns of Homs
and Damascus, and their hopes for reconciling the Syrian people.
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Emily Lindsay Brown
Cities Editor
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Chaoyue Pan/Flickr
Ammar Azzouz, University of Bath
By following these three lessons, Homs can re-emerge from the Syrian conflict an even greater city than before.
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Politics + Society
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Abdullah Yusuf, University of Dundee
The individual most directly responsible for a colossal humanitarian crisis is still in power – and might be for some time.
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Ataa Alsalloum, University of Liverpool
A Syrian architect reveals what makes her home town so special – and how locals can rebuild it.
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Corinna Frey, Cambridge Judge Business School
Constant staff rotations makes it difficult to pass on knowledge about an emergency situation.
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William McDougall, Glasgow Caledonian University
The Scottish and UK leaders exchanged fire this week – so, who's winning?
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Angela Phillips, Goldsmiths, University of London
The former chancellor has no experience of journalism, but that hasn't prevented him from taking over London's most important newspaper.
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Christopher Shoop-Worrall, University of Sheffield
The former Chancellor is by no means the first to walk the line between media and political elite.
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Paul Whiteley, University of Essex
The upsetters have achieved their founding ambition, now they need to work out what to do next.
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Peter Beresford, Brunel University London
After Brexit, we need inclusive conversations.
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Health + Medicine
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Lorna Jackson, University of Glasgow; Lisa Hopcroft, University of Glasgow
A new data portal bypasses the big data bottleneck to find targeted therapies for leukaemia.
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Dominick Burton, Aston University
Researchers have discovered a new way to fight ageing and age-related disease – going after senescent cells.
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Science + Technology
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Carole Mundell, University of Bath
The first ever picture of the Milky Way's black hole is expected to be a bright crescent shape rather than a disk.
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Tom Sorell, University of Warwick
Humans need greater autonomy than Isaac Asimov's neat science fiction idea permits.
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Mark Robert Anderson, Edge Hill University
Today's robots and artificial intelligence look very different from the androids conceived by Isaac Asimov.
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Business + Economy
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Louise Chalkley, Anglia Ruskin University
A TV series that gives families on benefits a lump sum of £26,000 shows how starting your own business can transform your life.
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Arts + Culture
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Stuart Brookes, UCL
New research suggests his military achievements might have been exaggerated.
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Valerie Derbyshire, University of Sheffield
There was more than meets the eye to one of the most famous versions of Beauty and the Beast.
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Education
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Nicola K Gale, University of Birmingham; Nicki Ward, University of Birmingham
How to make campus safer for LGBTQ students.
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