“In conjunction with the 5th anniversary of the chemical massacre in the Eastern and Western Ghouta, and in the details obtained by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the regime forces their...
If you were there, suffocated to death on that poor bathroom floor, would you have wanted us to publish your photo? Would you have wanted us to look away from the image of your last hours of suffering and to...
Assad warplanes attacked 2 hospitals and Syrian Red Crescent center in #Douma in the past 24 hours, resulted in more than 50 deaths and 200 injuries. #chlorine attack on civilians in #Douma is confirmed by one...
That’s how my screen usually looks! We spent most of our time down in the basement since the latest intensive shelling campaign which started on 18/2/2018 and because we stayed too much time underground...
With the evacuation process out of #Douma, we’ve been Struggling with the hardest decision we’ve ever had to make, choosing between two impossible choices, weather we leave our home town towards...
Are we meant to suffer wherever we go? Hasan Mohi Al-Deen He witnessed the siege and survived the shelling in eastern #Ghoutafor more than five years, he even survived the chemical attack on eastern Ghouta in...
2012-2017: Up to 26 local councils were operational providing public services and local administration (e.g. civil and property registries) to the local communities.
The main sources of food: agriculture, food reserves by the local governance bodies and the products stocked by the merchants. Eastern Ghouta has a variety of crops but they are not nutritionally diverse
By Braa Abo Zead a young man from Eastern #Ghouta. Photo by: Badra Mohammed/ EPA on January 6, 2018. Anyone that we get to see again, not knowing if they were alive or after their neighborhood or their house collapsed...
After all the suffering under siege they still have the passion to study. Few words from each telling us about their dreams. – Ammar Bouidani: Architecture is a dream I have had since I was a child...
A former political prisoner now living in besieged Ghouta reflects on the parallels between the two experiences.
