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(MIRAS Training Program)
MIRAS is a training program by Syria Direct to empower journalists living in northern Syria and provide training in in-depth journalistic reporting and writing according to the principles of professionalism, objectivity and countering misinformation.
Latest Articles
Displaced people in Hasakah voice frustration with ‘double standard’ between informal and IS camps
Frustrated by a lack of services, residents of Hasakah’s informal displacement camps point to what they call a “double standard” from international organizations providing services at camps holding accused Islamic State members and relatives.
Yazi Nahum: The last Jew in Qamishli tells her story
Yazi Nahum, the last Jew in northeastern Syria’s Qamishli, reflects on her life, her marriage to a Muslim man and the remaining traces of her city’s lost Jewish community.
Will Raqqa’s church bells ring again?
More than five years after the Islamic State was driven out of Raqqa city, many Christians who fled the city under its rule have not returned. Today, only a few dozen members of the community remain. Why?
Concerns over education in northeastern Syria help spur minors’ migration to Europe
For some families in Syria’s northeast, concerns over education in the Autonomous Administration’s school system are among the factors prompting them to send their underage children to Europe through irregular migration.
