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Posts Tagged ‘Syrian revolution’

Social Media Buzz: Where They Shoot the Messenger

Mohammed Sergie  –  March 04, 2013 1 Comment

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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Kurds Caught Between Islamists and the PKK

Mohammed Sergie  –  January 24, 2013 0 Comments

Azaz, Syria—The Turkey-based Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK), and its Syrian political wing, the Democratic Union Party (PYD), have stumbled into a precarious situation. They are now  administering a string of towns and cities along the Turkish border after the Syrian army handed the PKK control of the territory last summer.

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Kurdish Fighters Hope to Balance Islamist Forces

Mohammed Sergie  –  January 13, 2013 0 Comments

Azaz, Syria—Fighters of the Kurdish Saladin Brigade greet visitors with marhaba, hello, rather than the Islamic salam alikum. They lack the bushy beards that mark the more conservative Muslims who fight alongside them in the battlefields.

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Social Media Buzz: The Fallout of Assad's Speech

Mohammed Sergie  –  January 07, 2013 1 Comment

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

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Cats, Guns and Spoils of War in Rural Idlib

Mohammed Sergie  –  January 01, 2013 3 Comments

Maaret Misreen, Syria–Omar, a former marketing student at a private university in Damascus, is living a life he never could have imagined. He’s originally from Idlib, one of Syria’s smaller cities in the heart of the northwest olive groves.

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Ali Ferzat’s Sarcastic Revolution

May 19, 2013

Ali Ferzat is a renowned Syrian political cartoonist and the creator of more than 15,000 published drawings. In August 2011, Ferzat was reportedly dragged out of his car while driving in central Damascus by masked forces loyal to Bashar al-Assad’s regime. His fingers were systematically broken and he was left for dead by the side [...]

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, [...]

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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 [...]