Bahira al-Zarier

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Bahira al-Zarier

Bahira is from Damascus. She studied business and marketing before moving to Jordan in 2013. She did volunteer work in support of many refugee organizations before joining Syria Direct.

ARTICLES

Regime sniper picks off Zabadani’s last doctor

April 04

Last September, a ceasefire paused the fighting for the battered town of Zabadani, considered the gateway into the Qalamoun mountains north of Damascus. The town was a rebel stro...

Why young men are taking one of Syria’s most dangerous jobs

March 24

Civil Defense Units (CDUs) provide emergency response for victims of shelling, barrel bombs and other violence in rebel-held Syria. While most people would run in the opposite di...

Life in an encampment on the Turkish border: Two war widows tell their stories

March 08

An estimated 3.2 million women and girls are among the 6.6 million internally displaced inside Syria, according to a report in late 2015 by the United Nations Office for the Coord...

3 women’s stories: Unlicensed law offices promise answers about the disappeared

March 02

Earlier this month, the UN Human Rights Committee reported that tens of thousands of prisoners currently remain in regime custody: “Since March 2011, a countrywide patt...

East Ghouta children insist on education despite disabling wartime injuries

February 25

Ghadeer, a sixth grader, speaks at a ceremony in Douma to honor local students’ achievements on Wednesday. Photo courtesy of Yahya a-Batwani. Children in Damascus’s r...

'Urgent call' for support to rebuild East Ghouta clinic serving 55,000

February 25

Opposition authorities in regime-encircled East Ghouta issued on Tuesday an “urgent call for support” to rebuild the only clinic serving 55,000 residents of the Marj d...

East Ghouta protester: ‘If the UN continues to remain silent, it will be Assad’s partner in the killing’

February 24

Residents hold a sign that reads, “We welcome the UN, an ally of Russia and Bashar al-Assad in the burning and murder of hundreds of thousands in Syria.” Photo c...

Three interviews from three besieged rebel towns: ‘Aid temporarily postponing impending death’

February 18

The Syrian Arab Red Crescent delivered thousands of food baskets to five blockaded towns on Wednesday as part of a deal agreed upon by world powers last week in Munich. The deal ...

‘I can’t do anything’: One baby’s losing battle with tuberculosis

February 15

Children in the blockaded, rebel-held East Ghouta suburbs are contracting tuberculosis, polio and other preventable diseases because they have no access to vaccinations. One moth...

Douma surgeon: Lack of immunization 'catastrophic' problem

February 11

The Unified Medical Office in East Ghouta launched the “It is my Right to be Vaccinated” media campaign on Monday to demand that the regime allow international aid org...