While the rest of the media - 9 local media outlets - did not respond to the research team, about how they covered the problem. | The statelessness before the revolution: The statelessness issue began to appear on the Syrian media in 2004 when the Syrian Feminist Association launched an advocacy campaign to support the change of the legislative decree on nationality, which denies women the right to grant their nationality to their children, especially women married to foreigners. Many local newspapers and websites reported on the campaign, relying on testimonies, and the “ARIJ” network also published an investigation that highlighted the problem titled “The Curse of Syria’s Sexist Citizenship Law”48 published in 2008. It dealt with stories of Syrian women married to Arabs, some of whom did not obtain the nationality of their fathers. Therefore, they could not pursue their education or work in the institutions of the Syrian state, or even benefit from social and health services, and others of Syrian women children who lived in Syria their entire lives and died treated as a foreigner. The investigation also dealt with a simple analysis of the Syrian nationality law, in addition to the religious opinion in finding solutions. 69 However, despite the fact that this issue was covered by the local media before the revolution, the issues of the stateless and the Kurds were deliberately neglected by the successive Syrian governments. Arij - The Curse of Syria’s Sexist Citizenship Law HUMANS WITHOUT RIGHTS 48