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Thursday, 25 Apr, 2013
A fifteen-year-old named Manouchehr, who suffered from hemophilia, has died in southwest Iran due to shortages in medicine. His passing was recently announced by the managing director of Iran’s Hemophilia Center, Ahmad Ghavidel. Manouchehr, from a nomadic tribe in Dezful County, suffered an accident and could not survive in the mountains as his home clinics had run out of medicine. He died on the way to the hospital.
Sanctions imposed against Iran have caused soaring drug prices and a s...
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Monday, 18 Mar, 2013
In the pre-Arab Spring era, the conventional wisdom was that an uprising in Syria was far fetched. Articles written by learned experts proclaimed Assad’s immunity to the tide of protest sweeping through Arab republics, confidently asserting that Syria was a “sturdy house,” an exception to the rule. This was the time when the cause of regime change in Syria was deeply unfashionable.
Friday, March 18, 2011 changed all that. As I returned to my office on that day after performing pr...
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Tuesday, 12 Mar, 2013
Faddy Sahloul, the founder of Hand in Hand for Syria, rubs his tired eyes and pulls heavily on his cigarette. From his small flat in Rayhaniya, on the Turkish–Syrian border, Sahl...
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Friday, 15 Feb, 2013
On their Facebook page, “Lens of a Young Homsi,” amateur photographers post their pictures of scenery throughout war-torn Homs, with the aim of showcasing life inside the divid...
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Wednesday, 16 Jan, 2013
She’s not exactly Madame Mao, my North Korean hostess. She is delicate and demure, with slender arms and a round face lit by a shy smile. Her polished fingers cradle a microphone...
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Wednesday, 9 Jan, 2013
A few months ago a message arrived from a good friend in Beirut. Houssein described how, three months earlier, he had lost his job as an architectural engineer. He had been app...
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Tuesday, 25 Dec, 2012
Fairy lights wink at passers-by along the winding alleyways of the Old City’s Christian quarter. Christmas 2010 in Damascus—the last Christmas before the Syrian uprising be...
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Saturday, 22 Dec, 2012
For Christians all over the world, December is usually a time for celebration. For Christians in Syria—and indeed for all Syrians—life remains as challenging as it has been...
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Tuesday, 4 Dec, 2012
A large, rolled-up Arabic rug lies hazardously across the front entrance of St. Mark’s Coptic Orthodox church in Kensington, London. Ahead, smiling and embracing, groups of men a...
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Saturday, 1 Dec, 2012
“You know how things work around here: they give with one hand and they take away with the other,” says a small, wiry man in a plastic mac—Bedrus Türker—as he stands l...
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