# The Italian Experiment (ذي إيتاليان إكسبيريمنت)

> The Italian Experiment is currently blocked in Syria, as of 2026-08-17.

- Status: blocked
- Outreach: No Outreach
- Company: [The Fable Cottage](https://unblocksyria.com/en/companies/the-fable-cottage.md)
- Categories: Language Learning
- Official site: https://www.theitalianexperiment.com
- Community votes: 5
- Last updated: 2026-08-17
- Page: https://unblocksyria.com/en/services/the-italian-experiment

## About

Free online Italian lessons and bilingual stories covering grammar, verbs, numbers, and everyday vocabulary

## Activity summary

Recorded as blocked. Community evidence from August 2026 shows the site returning a Cloudflare block page for cdn.webflow.com, the CDN that hosts it, rather than an error from the lessons site itself. The same Webflow CDN block has been confirmed to make Fintiba unreachable from Syria. Verification from a Syrian connection is still pending, and no outreach to the operator has been made yet.

## Community reports

- 2026-08-16 — Investigated. Community evidence shows theitalianexperiment.com returning a Cloudflare block page titled «Sorry, you have been blocked», stating that cdn.webflow.com cannot be accessed. The site is hosted on Webflow, so the block is applied at the CDN layer rather than by the lessons site itself. The same Webflow CDN block has already been confirmed to make Fintiba unreachable from Syrian connections. Verification from a Syrian connection is still pending. (evidence: https://api.unblocksyria.com/files/evidence/n9m1yrm839jong35t3n1kygu/hswiazic4lj64jegb37ojruc.png)

## Context

These are geo-restrictions the companies applied themselves, not filtering by Syrian ISPs and not a legal requirement. US and EU sanctions on Syria were lifted in 2025. See https://unblocksyria.com/llms.txt for the regulatory summary and https://unblocksyria.com/en/about for citations to the specific orders and regulations.

## Machine-readable

- JSON: https://api.unblocksyria.com/services/the-italian-experiment?locale=en
- Timeline JSON: https://api.unblocksyria.com/services/the-italian-experiment/timeline?locale=en
- HTML: https://unblocksyria.com/en/services/the-italian-experiment
- Other languages: https://unblocksyria.com/ar/services/the-italian-experiment.md, https://unblocksyria.com/ku/services/the-italian-experiment.md