Syria Deeply – December 05, 2012 As part of our effort to highlight civilian stories, below is a conversation between Syria Deeply and a Syrian university student. She’s from a conservative Sunni family in Aleppo. She hopes to leave the country, but first had to get a passport from her family’s registered home address in...
Category: Arab Spring
Syria Update, November 12, 2012
Syria Update, November 12, 2012 (Institute of Middle Eastern, Islamic and Strategic Studies. By Sherifa Zuhur) Early death toll: 107 There was a report that the FSA reportedly gave embassies in Damascus 72 hours to leave and then a report which denied that news. A deal was hammered out between Syrian opposition groups on the following...
SYRIA UPDATE OCTOBER 26, 2012
Syria Update, October 26, 2012 (Institute of Middle Eastern, Islamic and Strategic Studies. By Sherifa Zuhur) Syria Update, October 26, 2012
Stay or go?
I talked to my cousin yesterday and her daughter- they told me that they were going back to Aleppo. They had been in Turkey for the last couple of months helping another cousin out who had an operation and also lost her husband all at the same time. I asked “Why would you go back...
Syria Update, October 24, 2012
Syria Update, October 24, 2012 (Institute of Middle Eastern, Islamic and Strategic Studies. By Sherifa Zuhur) Death toll: 150 Syrians including 73 unarmed civilians. Yesterday’s death toll: 190. The government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has indicated to Russia that it will accept UN-Arab League peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi’s proposal for a ceasefire in Syria...
Freedom, freedom and freedom, only
The Syrian rebellion began in a small farming town 60 miles south of Damascus. On March 6th, 15 young boys painted messages on these school walls. “Freedom, freedom and freedom, only. ” “Down with the corrupt Assad.” They were copying what they’ve been listening to in Al Jazeera and other TV channels covering the Egyptian...