Jul. 9, 2018
Deir Ballut Camp residents watch the Spain-Iran World Cup match outside al-Sayyed’s tent on June 20. Photo courtesy of Rami al-Sayyed.
More than a dozen men, young and old,...
Jul. 3, 2018
As the bus carrying Rahab Um Bakr wound its way through the streets of Damascus this past Sunday, the 36-year-old looked out the window at a city scarred by years of war.
It was ...
May. 29, 2018
Somur Abu Fida never expected his engagement to last so long.
But just months after the Syrian Arab Army soldier proposed to his fiancée in 2010, protests and violence spr...
May. 28, 2018
Jaafar, a 40-year-old bus driver from the government-held, coastal province of Latakia, has been crisscrossing Syria behind the wheel of his privately owned coach for nearly 10 ye...
May. 23, 2018
Whenever Mohammad Kheirallah hears a knock on the door of his house, his heart stops for a moment. He drops everything and crawls up to hide in a small storage space above the kit...
May. 22, 2018
Less than one year ago, Khaled al-Ahmad fought with a Free Syrian Army (FSA)-affiliated faction in Syria’s sparsely populated eastern desert, where he lived with his family ...
May. 21, 2018
Approaching the outskirts of Douma city with two of his four sons in the car earlier this month, Samir al-Hamwi was both thrilled and terrified of what awaited him in his hometown...
May. 14, 2018
Starting over in Damascus with one bag of clothes and a tent after fleeing Palestine in 1967, Ibrahim al-Khalili built a life, a family and a business in the Yarmouk camp as it sl...
May. 2, 2018
Last month, American warplanes and missiles struck Assad government positions in Syria for the second time in just over a year, following reports of chemical weapons use in the co...
Apr. 29, 2018
One by one, prisoners exited government buses into a packed auditorium in Damascus earlier this month. Many of the detainees, formerly held by an Islamist rebel faction in East Gh...
