Saturday, May 18, 2013

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

Alison Tahmizian Meuse  –  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.

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Arts + Culture: War in Syria’s Wine Country

Jeffrey T. Iverson  –  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, weren’t born into wine. But if the mark of a good winegrower is the ability to adapt and take in stride the vicissitudes of life and nature, then the Saadés have already proven themselves beyond a doubt to be a pair of natural vignerons.

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

Mohammed Sergie (@msergie)  –  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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Catholics Join Islamist Fighters

Mohammed Sergie (@msergie)  –  May 14, 2013

RAS AL-AYN, HASSAKEH PROVINCE / Visitors crossing from Turkey to Ras al-Ayn, a sleepy border town in eastern Syria, are now welcomed by the unlikeliest of characters: a Catholic member of what is considered an extremist Islamist rebel group.

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After Winter’s Chill, Fears of Summer Heat

Dina Shahrokhi  –  May 13, 2013

Anyone who has spent a summer in Syria knows it’s unpleasant. Average high temperatures can hit 96 F / 35 C. Pre-revolution, the heat simply meant sweaty taxi rides, nights in rooms with no AC, and minor dehydration while shopping. But over two years of war, Syrian civilians now live with limited or no access to electricity, medicine or water. Refugees often live in unsanitary camps that are breeding grounds for diseases. As summer hits the region, these struggles will only intensify.

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