Syrian anti-Assad cartoonist Ali Ferzat plans to relaunch his satirical magazine in Cairo. He fled Syria last year after having his hands broken in Damascus in an attack he blamed on security forces. In partnership with his colleague former Syrian news anchor Ibrahim Jubain, Ferzat is applying for a license to publish the satirical magazine al-Domari, which means the Lamp Lighter, Reuters reports. The magazine, which was founded in Syria in 2000 during a brief period of media freedom, was forced to shut down by Assad’s government in 2003.

“The uprising has redefined art in Syria,” he says. “It’s exposed the gulf between real artists and mercenaries in the pay of the state. Most - many of them my colleagues - have failed that test. It’s changed what Syrians see as art.

“There’s a new revolutionary art in what people have been writing and drawing and singing in the protests - true to the pulse of the street. It’s unleashed a new creativity among ordinary people - allowing them to speak and express themselves in ways they never could before.”