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The Box By Khaled K, Syria

Author: By Khaled K, Syria
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Five years ago, I was living in a box. Not literally a box, but an extremely small room. When I lived inside this box, I lived like an animal in a cage. My life was controlled by other people. There were eighty people in this small box, all so close together that we were almost one. […]
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Beyond the Headlines – The Investigation of the near and far

Author: Ala Oueslati, Tunisia
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The war in Syria? Who hasn’t heard of the war in Syria? A carnage so painful to witness, yet impossible to ignore. We didn’t own a TV to watch what happened in Syria every day. We did however, have something better than TV: WIFI. It is as quick as asking a genie for another wish. […]
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That Day by EENAS

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SYRIA — Everything happened within one day. That day changed my life forever. It was the last week of the spring semester. At this point we were done with most of the subjects, but my friends still insisted on attending classes for the whole week…
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Photo Essay | Badama Camp

Author: by Kaman Thawra, Syria
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10,000 displaced Syrians living in Badama camp in rural Lattakia region near the Turkish border recently suffered from a devastating snow storm and now severe flooding. The pictures, taken by a humanitarian activist on the ground, speak for themselves.
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ما جد في التاريخ – الفصل الأول من أولها … امجد جيز

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مللت من السنوات التي تمر من عمري بلا فائدة وبلا جدوى، أيام تتكرر وتعيد نفسها بلا توقف، كل ما يزيد في حياتنا ويتقدم فقط هو السن وكعادتنا لا يرضينا حكم حاكمنا ولا نرى فيه سوى أنه يزداد سوءً عن غيره، فقد يمر به بصيص أمل لكن السوء هو الأبرز والأكثر، مرت في حياتي ثلاث حكومات […]
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Photo Essay | Aleppo

Author: Kaman Thawra, Syria
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“I am on a humanitarian convoy to Aleppo and I am witnessing crimes against humanity.” A young Syrian journalist turned aid worker captures images in the aftermath of an “airstrike that was just 150 meters away” and pleads that we show to the world the faces of the people – young, old and everything in […]
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A Night in Kobani by Abdulslam Mohammad Khanjar, Syria

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On September 14, 2014, the Siege of Kobani by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) was underway. Already, the people from the villages near Kobani were leaving and moving toward the Turkish Border. Eight-year-old Jwan had gone with his cousin, 10-year-old Jan, to play in the nearby play yard. Back at home, the […]
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Dragged humanity by Dana Alkassir, Syria

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I will never forget that hot summer day in 2013. I was in the suburbs of Damascus, Tadamon -to be specific- a place fifteen minutes away from downtown and as close to the Free Syrian Army as the neighborhood next door. It was an unusually quiet afternoon. People in that area had gotten used to […]
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Firas Allabbad from Syria today living in Zaatary Refugee Camp

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The phenomenon of Syrian men leaving their wives and children once they reach Europe is disturbingly high especially because there are no laws that protect women rights or that prevent husbands from running away from their responsibilities. Because of the war, the social situation of Syrian women is destroyed and turned them into both mental […]
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What happened to R2P? by Lea Ledwon, Germany/ Israel

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Is there such a thing as the Responsibility to Protect? And if so, who is responsible for protecting whom? Clearly, there is no consensus on this issue. For some, state sovereignty is absolutely sacred, for others the protection of civilians dying because their regime cannot protect them or is the perpetrator itself, can override this […]
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