Letting Water Flow Back to Idlib
The civil administration of Idlib in northwestern Syria are bringing back water supplies to regions where infrastructure was badly damaged by the fighting. Idlib’s...
Restoring Dignity To Idlib’s Jobless
Queues of people, young and old, waiting for food aid have become a common sight in Idlib. The conflict has led to the systematic...
Kurdish Curriculum Launches in Syrian Schools
At the beginning of the current academic year, a comprehensive Kurdish language curriculum was rolled out in primary schools in several cities in Syria’s...
Keeping Syria’s Displaced Warm
Umm Hassan and her six children were desperate to keep warm. Winter had arrived, but they had no oil to light their old stove....
A Futile War
My family and I had just finished lunch, and my husband and I were enjoying a pleasant evening together, sipping coffee and discussing the...
Women Kick Up A Storm in Syrian Football
When Sulin Murad told her parents that she wanted to join a women’s football team, they were surprisingly enthusiastic. This reaction, she told Damascus...
The Truce that Never Was
On Sunday morning, December 20, 2015, Russian military aircraft committed a massacre in my beloved city Idlib. Various media outlets reported that more than...
Displaced, Again and Again
I will never forget the day my brother Yousef was arrested – January 22, 2012 – and the events that followed. Seven government soldiers...
Surviving Assad’s Prisons
Her name is Abeer. She is from Maarat al-Numan, and this is the story of the torment she suffered while detained by the Syrian...
The Sound of War
The sounds of the bombardment of my hometown of Dael differed according to whether it was night and by day. First came the intense...
Voting for Assad
It was 2014 and Syria’s presidential elections day was approaching, but many of the residents of Idlib couldn’t figure out what to do. “It’s...
Sparking Up Kfar Nabel’s Power Supply
Saeed takes a car battery to work with him every day. He doesn’t own a vehicle, but needs some way to power the lights...
The Birth of A New Hope
My first baby was almost due, and I had just been to see the doctor for a final examination. I was so exhausted and...
Tales of the Revolution’s Heartbreak
My family and I fled Syria on January 24, 2012. Too many of us had already been arrested and it was no longer safe....
At the Mercy of A Sniper
As I stepped out of my house in Jisr al-Abyad neighbourhood early in the morning of June 17, 2012, I felt light with optimism....
Replanting Hope in Idlib
Abu Mahmud goes to work on his farm each morning, excited that his 45-acres of land are once again a luscious green. Like hundreds...
