topic: Syria

Civil War Within
May 2, 2013
The number of Syrian refugees passed the 1 million mark in March and continues to climb as the civil war grinds on. As of this writing, the...
Nazli Sinem Koytak
Art
A Tenuous Refuge in Lebanon
April 6, 2013
Editor's note : Earlier this year, Michael Goldfarb, media relations manager for Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)-USA...
©Michael Goldfarb
Opinion
Death and Daily Bread
September 10, 2012
A young nurse in Aleppo’s Dar Al-Shifa hospital methodically turned the pages of her massive notebook, giving me names of people killed and...
©Human Rights Watch
Reportage
The Beginning of the End?
August 27, 2012
Nothing can be heard except the uncanny drone of a helicopter circling over the town. Apart from that, all is quiet. Twelve activists are...
©Carsten Stormer
Reportage
Syria's Kurds Quietly Consolidating
August 13, 2012
QAMISHLO, Syria: When Rad Mecid Sexmus, 40, became the latest Kurdish shahid (martyr), killed securing a checkpoint in this northern town,...
Reviews
In Sarmada
June 6, 2012
Unsurprisingly, given the conflict being reported in Syria today, Fadi Azzam’s debut novel Sarmada has been heralded, in certain literary...
Reviews
A Revolutionary Comic
April 3, 2012
Two years a ago, the New York Times printed a short article announcing that First Second Books would be publishing a web comic “about Iran...
Reportage
The last thing I told Rémi
February 28, 2012
The last thing I told Rémi Ochlik was: "Be safe, OK? You've already won your World Press Photo." That was on a Wednesday, one week before...
Reportage
We Live in Fear of a Massacre
February 22, 2012
Sunday Times correspondent and veteran war reporter Marie Colvin was killed in a shelling attack on the besieged Syrian city of Homs...