Most recent article published in The Globe Post – 23. January 2019 Since the Syrian uprising and following war eight years ago, over one million Syrians have fled to neighboring Lebanon. They live in makeshift camps with poor infrastructure and tents housing. Earlier this month, storm Norma hit over 547 of those settlements, endangering over 22,000 refugees. A…
Month: January 2019
MeatBall and Chain – Traditional Patriarchal Recipe
A short introduction to the role of some women in a Middle Eastern minorities’ reality.
Mother Russia
I’m typing these thoughts ferociously while sitting in a taxi on my way back to Beirut after spending a weekend in Syria, taking care of some charity work, which I’m supporting. It’s a rainy day and the highway between Latakia and the Areeda border is mostly empty besides the occasional truck by a local farmer…
Women’s participation in the Local Administration Councils’ of the Syrian opposition areas
Published in the Asia Dialogue University of Nottingham, 21.09.2018 After seven years of violence, the Syrian conflict, a Non-International Armed Conflict (NIAC) according to the ICRC, is moving towards its final chapter in Idlib. However, regardless of its inevitable end, the grassroot Syrian opposition on the ground (and with it the umbrella of the Syrian National…