Syrian War

Investigations

Syria: The Sanitary Pad as a Luxury Item Many Cannot Afford

Maksim Othman
She was a stranger with a strange appearance and a strange request. “I’m not a beggar,” she told my mother. “I just want some old clothes or rags that you no longer need. I need them as a pad for my paralyzed daughter.”
Culture

Children of Syria… Begging for Bread and Matches

Farah Akbik
The same government that subjugated its nation still reigns. That very same government that is slowly being rehabilitated back onto the international stage, with its vast catalogue of human rights violations being conveniently forgotten. A government that made our children orphans and abandoned them to the streets. 
Opinion

Syria: The Day the Revolutionary Flag Was Raised in our Village…

Nour Eddine
“When the soldier was about halfway, at a height of some fifty meters, fear paralyzed his feet and made him cling onto the ladder. Embracing the ladder, he hung there, as if frozen in mid-air.”
Investigations

Online Education in Lebanon’s Syrian Refugee Camps: A Story of Hope and Resilience

Lynn Kseibi – Syrian Journalist
Despite the efforts done to help make education accessible for the Syrian refugees, there is still a long way to go.
Investigations

Syria’s Sinister yet Lucrative Trade in Dead Bodies

Ali Al Ibrahim – Khalifa Al Khuder
“The corpses the officers had marked we would later dig up and hand back to them. They would ask the victims’ families for $1,500 to $3,000 per body.”
Investigations

Stories Through Syrian Window; Waste Children, the Murdered Fetus and the Faulty Fuel Filter

Manahel Alsahoui
What governs our relationships with our nations? Are they based on sentiments of belonging and love, or are they based on what our nations can provide for us? What if misery is all that it can provide? Could love alone sustain our relationship with it?
Opinion

From Beirut to Damascus: “Nowhere Is Safe”

Ghalia Al Alwani- Syrian Journalist
I’ve almost made peace with the idea that everyone I know is going to die soon, I started to calculate: would I rather die with my parents in Syria? Or would I rather die with my partner and friends here? What if my parents die? Would I rather be there or hear about it from here?
Investigations

Syria: Those with Special Needs Facing COVID-19

Mohammad Bassiki and Ali Ibrahim
The COVID-19 Pandemic has cast its dark shadow on Mariam Hammado’s life, a Syrian woman who is extremely concerned that one of her four siblings might get infected with the virus. All of her siblings suffer from a mental disability, which causes them to be unable to figure out what’s going on.
Investigations

“Isn’t Everyone Dead In The End?”: Syrians Deal with “Coronavirus” in the Language of War

Manahel Alsahoui
Within the tremendous amount of fear Syrians have been through, it is just routine to them, so they go out and talk about a viral infection that attacks behind closed doors, and about a war they’ve witnessed with their own eyes. In a battle between war and virus, war is always the victor.

The English Section of Daraj News is co-supported by Anne Avis

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