Bio
Noura Hourani
Noura Hourani worked as Syria Direct’s Senior Editor through August 2019. Through Noura’s work in leading Syria Direct’s newsroom, along with her coverage of human rights violations and women’s issues in Syria, she was selected as the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers’ (WAN-IFRA) Middle East and North Africa laureate in 2018. Noura has also participated in numerous workshops and trainings in Jordan focused on combating hate speech and radicalism in the media, and holds a Bachelor’s degree in English literature.
Latest Articles
Displaced Yarmouk residents doubtful of return home despite fresh government assurances: ‘Where will people return to?’
A man walks down a Yarmouk street in May. Photo […]
‘Those who must go, must go’: As the years drag on in Rukban camp, pregnant women face strapped medical services or a risky return home
Rukban women enter UN-run clinic in Jordan in March 2017. Photo by […]
‘A person who believed’: Remembering Razan Zaitouneh on her 41st birthday
One by one, prisoners exited government buses into a packed […]
‘Dignity of the dead’ at stake in east Aleppo as operation to relocate thousands of graves set to begin
AMMAN: After the airstrike, Umm Ahmad emerged from what was […]
Months after coalition-backed victory in Raqqa, bodies still being pulled from the rubble
More than five months after United States-backed Syrian forces captured […]
East Ghouta residents struggle to bury the dead, ‘resort to mass graves’
Ahmad spends his days ferrying East Ghouta’s dead from medical […]
Photo Essay: Inside a makeshift underground shelter for Afrin’s displaced
The belongings Abu Shadi, Um Shadi and their ten children […]
Kurdish Red Crescent: Displaced people in Afrin city face overcrowding, ‘unsuitable’ shelters
AMMAN: Thousands of people displaced by a Turkish-backed offensive on […]
‘YPG shelling’ hits northwestern Idlib displacement camp during Afrin battles: rebel spokesman
AMMAN: Artillery shells struck a displacement camp near the Syrian-Turkish […]
The network: A virtual hunt for suspected Islamic State members in Syria
AMMAN: Aghid al-Khodr wakes up early, before the sun rises. […]