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Tag: Syria

15 November, 2021 • Hadani Ditmars

Burning Forests, Burning Nations

Columnist Hadani Ditmars recounts meeting strangers at the beach during fire season in British Columbia and finds Syria and Turkey are shared homelands.

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15 November, 2021 • Hadani Ditmars

The Vanishing: Are Arab Christians an Endangered Minority?

Hadani Ditmars reviews Janine di Giovanni's ambitious new travelogue on beleaguered Christian communities in Iraq, Gaza, Syria, and Egypt.

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1 November, 2021 • Iason Athanasiadis

Refugees Detained in Thessonaliki’s Diavata Camp Await Asylum

In which our columnist flies up to Thessaloniki and visits the Diavata camp for refugees seeking European asylum — no one is illegal, everyone merits a better life.

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15 October, 2021 • Jordan Elgrably

Interview With Prisoner X, Accused by the Bashar Al-Assad Regime of Terrorism

A Syrian refugee successfully resettled in Brussels shares part of his story.

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15 September, 2021 • Ava Homa

Why Resistance Is Foundational to Kurdish Literature

Ava Homa how statelessness, trauma and political exile shaped her novel Daughters of Smoke and Fire   Coming of age as a Kurdish girl in Iran, I learned early on… Continue reading Why Resistance Is Foundational to Kurdish Literature

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25 July, 2021 • TMR

Summer of ‘21 Reading—Notes from the Editors

Our editors reveal their diverse literary interests, with more than a dozen recommendations for summer reading.

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14 June, 2021 • Lawrence Joffe

Syria’s Ruling Elite— A Master Class in Wasta

Lawrence Joffe on how the al-Assad and Makhlouf families have mastered the art of control and corruption in a country decimated by a decade of war.

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30 May, 2021 • Rana Asfour

The Maps of Our Destruction: Two Novels on Syria

Rana Asfour reviews Faysal Khartash's Roundabout of Death and Zeyn Joukhadar's The Map of Salt and Stars.

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14 May, 2021 • Todd Miller

We Are All at the Border Now

Roving reporter Todd Miller, who has published four books exploring the world and its borders, questions the philosophy of walls.

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14 May, 2021 • Frances Zaid

From Damascus to Birmingham, a Selected Glossary

Frances Zaid describes in epistolary fashion the language barriers in her blooming relationship (leading to marriage and kids) with a three-time refugee from the Yarmouk Camp.

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14 March, 2021 • Claire Launchbury

Memory and the Assassination of Lokman Slim

Claire Launchbury writes of one man's long search for the truth about Lebanon's civil war, cut short by his mysterious murder this year.

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14 March, 2021 • Mohja Kahf

The Freedom You Want

A poem for Syria by Mohja Kahf.

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14 February, 2021 • Mischa Geracoulis

The Revolution Sees its Shadow 10 Years Later

Mischa Geracoulis remembers Zahra's Paradise along with the Arab awakenings, George Floyd, Covid-19 and Groundhog Day.

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14 February, 2021 • Robert Solé

Ten Years of Hope and Blood

In which Egyptian-Syrian-French journalist and novelist Robert Solé considers the Arab awakenings across the region.

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16 January, 2021 • TMR

Watch Water Films & Donate to Water Organizations

Is the cost of water really higher than the cost of petrol? Are we destined to run out of water if we don't find a way forward? 4 films, 6 charitable organizations you should know.

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