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A Five-Month Journey Through Syria’s Dungeons

Mohammed Sergie (@msergie)  –  June 07, 2013 0 Comments

AYN AL-ARAB (KOBANI), ALEPPO PROVINCE / After losing one-third of his weight and sustaining multiple beatings over five months in prisons run by Syrian intelligence agencies, Mohammed Sheikh Nabi, a member of the Kurdish party Azadi, said he’d been certain he would die.

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In Syria, Kidnapping Becomes a ‘Big-Money Business’

Karen Leigh (@leighstream)  –  June 06, 2013 1 Comment

Peter N. Bouckaert, the Geneva-based emergencies director at Human Rights Watch, explains the sudden rise in kidnappings across Syria.

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Fear and Loathing in Aleppo’s Mental Hospital

Clare Morgana Gillis  –  June 01, 2013 2 Comments

In a city where many live in fear for their lives, some languish without even the psychological ability to grasp what is happening to them.

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Arts + Culture: Lessons from the Minaret

Amal Hanano (@amalhanano)  –  April 27, 2013 3 Comments

Amal Hanano is a well-known Syrian writer and blogger, as well as an associate editor of Syria Deeply. Here she explores this week’s destruction of the Umayyad Mosque, the architectural pride of her hometown of Aleppo.

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In Kobani, Volunteers Cobble a Police Force

Mohammed Sergie (@msergie)  –  April 23, 2013 0 Comments

This is the first in a two-part series on Syria’s volunteer police brigades. 

AYN AL-ARAB (KOBANI), ALEPPO PROVINCE – With only a sixth-grade education and prior experience in temporary agricultural jobs, Fayyad Mula Khalil, the effective police chief in Ayn al-Arab, known as Kobani in Kurdish, admits that he’s not qualified to be the city’s top cop.

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The Data Miners: Syria Needs Analysis Project (SNAP)

June 17, 2013

The Syria Needs Analysis Project (SNAP) is a partnership between the Assessment Capacities Project (ACAPS) and MapAction. It’s funded by the U.K.’s Department for International Development and is “aimed at strengthening the shared situational analysis of humanitarian responders by providing an independent analysis of the humanitarian situation of those affected by the Syrian crisis.” To [...]

What the Gezi Park Protesters Think of Erdogan’s Syria Policy

June 15, 2013

As anti-government protests in Istanbul’s Gezi Park continued into their third weekend, a Syrian Turk, a riot policeman, a Kurd and others in the disputed strip shared their views on President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Syria policy and how it’s shaped their views of the Turkish government.

What’s the State of Syria’s Opposition?

June 15, 2013

Rex Brynen is a political science professor at McGill University in Montreal and an expert on Middle East conflict and development. He talked with Syria Deeply about the state of  Syria’ s political opposition after the unraveling of talks earlier this month in Istanbul, and after the U.S. announced that it would provide small weapons [...]

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Zaatari’s Wasted Youth

June 14, 2013

Last week at Zaatari refugee camp, as we sipped tea that was just a few degrees hotter than the air temperature, I asked a 22-year-old refugee named Hamdi why he was so quiet that day. Hamdi’s close friend Yazan, who has been the only pillar of stability in Hamdi’s life since he arrived in the [...]