Alaa Nassar

Author

Alaa Nassar

Reporter

Alaa was forced to flee Damascus with her family because of the pressure from the Syrian regime in 2013. She was a student of Arabic Language & Literature at the University of Damascus. She came to Syria Direct because she hopes to find a new direction in her life and to show the world what is happening in her country.

ARTICLES

Like being in Assad’s prisons: Female survivors recall their ordeals in HTS cells

January 07

AMMAN — After almost three months in detention by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), media activist and humanitarian worker Nour al-Shalo was released on Monday. However, the discourse a...

Northwestern Syria: Life in the time of COVID-19 (Photos)

November 09

Pictures taken inside Idlib province show how the rising COVID-19 pandemic is impacting daily life in the northwest province.

With drastic increase in COVID-19 cases, northwest Syria languishes under health, humanitarian crises

November 05

In two months, the number of COVID-19 cases in the opposition-held northwest Syria region increased fifty-fold, from 138 confirmed cases on September 8 to 7,500 on November 5.

Escaping Idlib: Risking death for a chance at life in Turkey

September 13

Despite increasing restrictions on border crossings, Syrian refugees risk it all for a better life in Turkey.

Freed from regime prisons, Syrian women seek refuge from social stigma

August 06

After enduring torture and sexual violence in prison, Syrian female survivors face societal stigma upon returning home.

‘Home is no longer safe’, Syrian refugee women in Jordan fear domestic violence more than COVID-19

May 03

As Jordan enters its sixth week of coronavirus-induced lockdown, victims of domestic violence, especially refugees, continue to suffer at the hands of their abusers with no end in...

For Syrian refugees in Lebanon, the repercussions of the coronavirus may be more deadly than the infection

April 08

From February 21 to April 7, Lebanon officially registered 548 cases of Coronavirus. While in a statement on March 26 human rights organizations said that three Syrian refugees in...

Assad regime, HTS, and ISIS attempt to silence female journalists in Idlib

March 30

Syria Direct spoke to four women working as on-camera reporters and print journalists in HTS-held Idlib city to learn what they experience in their male-dominated profession.

Clinics close in al-Rukban as camp braces for Coronavirus

March 29

As the rest of the world isolates themselves to prevent the spread of Coronavirus, the 12,700 Syrians who reside in the al-Rukban internally displaced people’s camp find themselve...

Idlib's antiquities: A forgotten tragedy in northwest Syria

March 17

Through their eroding cobblestones and damaged, worn-out carvings, Idlib province's heritage sites tell the tale of another unfolding tragedy in northwest Syria.