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Syria Deeply Asks: What is the Relationship Like between Russia and Syria?

May 17, 2013

As a regular feature, inspired by your questions about the Syria conflict, we’ve rounded up answers from some of the top minds in our network. If you’d like to submit a question for us to tackle, send it to ask@newsdeeply.org.

Arts + Culture: War in Syria’s Wine Country

May 16, 2013

Another winter has passed at Domaine de Bargylus, and once-twisted, gray-barked vines are today burgeoning with green buds. Spring is a precarious season, when a late frost can decimate a vineyard’s chances of ever yielding a harvest. Like the majority of their countrymen, the owners of this young estate, Syrian brothers Karim and Sandro Saadé, [...]

Social Media Buzz: Hezbollah + the Shadow of Sunni-Shiite Battle

May 14, 2013

Millions of Syrians are using social media tools such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Skype to disseminate and discuss the conflict. Each week Syria Deeply monitors the online conversation in English and Arabic, pulling out the highlights in a feature called the Social Media Buzz.

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Egypt and Syrian Refugees: It’s Complicated

May 16, 2013

Every time I have to travel to Egypt, my heart jumps with joy like a little girl about to go to an amusement park. Egypt has and will always have a special place in my heart. It was the place I was born, it’s where I went to university, where I first fell in love, [...]

Young Brides’ Dreams Crushed Among Syrian Civil War

May 15, 2013

The following post first appeared at CBSNews.com.  ZAATARI REFUGEE CAMP, Jordan — It is impossible for most of us to understand what life is like for the more than half-million Syrian refugees living in Jordan. Most have fled the violence and chaos of Syria’s civil war only to themselves trapped in a life of grinding [...]