A Safe Haven For Those Fleeing IS
“I will put lipstick and eyeliner on, then smoke and wear whatever I want; I will go to parks and dance at weddings and...
Greening Qamishli
More than 200 saplings have been planted in northern Qamishli as part of an environmental campaign to combat pollution. Some 20 civil society institutions...
Student Power Overturns Controversial Decree
Popular protests run by students in Hassakah have managed to overturn a decision by the local department of education to shift exam centres far...
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...
Too Late to Get Married
Hana Said Ibrahim, 43, still dreams of getting married. The business and economics graduate who works as a senior government official in Qamishli city,...
Art Supporting Peace in Syria
An open-air art exhibition held in a Qamishli park aims to promote the culture of peace. Dozens of paintings distributed throughout the park deal...
Qamishli’s Museum of Kurdish Heritage
Mohammed Sabri founded the Martyr Farhad’s Museum of Kurdish Heritage in Qamishli two years ago. The museum, portrays the traditional Kurdish way of life...
Face Veils De Rigueur in Islamic State Areas
Hanuf and her children waited nervously for their bus at the station in Qamishli in northeast Syria. They were on their way to visit...
Underage Girls Recruited to Kurdish Forces
The case of a 12-year old Kurdish Syrian girl recruited to fight alongside local militias has highlighted ongoing concerns about the recruitment of child...
Fighting Gender Violence in al-Hasakah
A new awareness-raising campaign against domestic violence aims to change attitudes amongst communities in northeastern Syria. The initiative by the Fraternity Foundation for Human...
The Ruins Left by Islamic State
The Islamic State [IS] controlled the town of Tal Hamis, south of the city of Qamishli, for almost two years. In late February 2015,...
A Key to No House
Samah Imam’s family stood riveted in front of the television, watching a news report about Kurdish forces retaking territory from Islamic State militants in...
Sold by Islamic State
Raghda was 11 years old when she was kidnapped by Islamic State (IS) fighters on August 3, 2014. Over the next three years, her...
No Schools, No Textbooks and No Teachers
Every day, early in the morning, Um Juwan walks her teacher son to the bus that carries staff to one of the schools in...
Support for Children with Special Needs
A new campaign aims to provide psychological and social support to children with special needs in the war-torn city of Qamishli. The organisation Tufulati...
The Martyr’s Wife
She will always remember the fourth day of Eid al-Adha in 2013. That was the day she took her infant daughter, just under a...
