Maha Hrer and Mustafa Qarman, just moments before his death Now that the regime of Bashar al-Assad seems to have won the war in Syria without, paradoxically, being able to put an end to it anytime soon, I often think of the Syrian civilians I had the privilege to interview . I think of their activism, their courage, their despair. Their hopes, the way that the winds of war disrupted their lives in ways we can't even imagine, and compared to which even our Corona-ordeals are almost insignificant. Which is relevant, since Syrian refugees are in our midst. I think of the way these Syrian civilians were ignored by politicians and media alike. As if they weren't entitled to having a say in the whole conflict. As if their stories of resilience and survival hardly were interesting. And as if their endeavours didn't really matter. Take Maha Hrer. In 2014 her husband, with whom she had just been married for three months, was killed in Aleppo. She fled to Gaziantep