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

Khan Sheikhoun: A city that dies more than once

August 15

AMMAN - Until recently, the city of Khan Sheikhoun was a symbol of life in Syria. While some accounts date the building of the city to the Byzantine era, discoveries made of build...

Syrian students in Jordan struggle with multiple obstacles to post-secondary education

August 06

AMMAN- 4761 Syrians sat for high school final exams (tawjihi) this year, according to the Secretary-General of the Ministry of Education, Sami al-Salaitah, among which hundreds ar...

Four months in, civilians remain a target of the government military campaign on northwest Syria

August 02

AMMAN- Since the beginning of Russia and the Syrian government’s military campaign on northwest Syria in April 2019, territory control has barely changed.

Thousands of students take primary and secondary school exams in northwest Syria amidst bombing campaign

June 27

AMMAN- Thousands of students sat down to take their final exams last Sunday in the opposition-held area in northwestern Syria following a two-week delay as the Educational Ministr...

Director of the Syrian Network for Human Rights: The law is on our side … but politics is against us

June 20

Since the outbreak of the Syrian Civil War in the spring of 2011, humanitarian monitoring and documentation organizations have been active in cataloguing human rights violations a...

Civil Defense: More than 200 killed in Idlib during Ramadan

June 13

Amman - The Syrian Civil Defense documented 24 people killed and 35 injured on Monday as a result of the Syrian government’s targeting of northern Hama and southern Idlib province...

Dozens dead as Syrian Army counterattacks Kafranbuda in response to Islamist gains

May 23

Amman- Rocket fire killed four civilians and injured 20 others in the city center of Saraqib, southeast of Idlib, in a new escalation by government forces in response to a militar...

“The wall engraved with shrapnel” and the remains of books: Memories of displacement in Idlib

May 21

With each new story of displacement Ahmed lives out, he recalls the details of his house, the windows, the colors of the walls, the beautiful memories he had there. But just as he...

On the anniversary of the peace deal in Southern Damascus “there is no amnesty, no reconciliation.”

May 14

Amman- In May of 2018, Hassan Adal watched as his friends and neighbors boarded buses to take them out of Southern Damascus. Their departure came on the heels of a cease-fire sett...

“Where is there left to go?” Three Clinics are hit in regime strikes in Northwest Syria

May 06

Amman- Khadijat Umm Mohammed sits in her small house on the outskirts of Khan Sheikhoun, its foundation intermittently rattled by the force of nearby explosions. She is waiting fo...