We try to find home

We try to find home, Daraa city, Oct.2016 cameraman: Ehssan Al-shalabi Directed by: Issam Khoury  

Zaizon Refugee Camp

Zaizon Refugee Camp, Aug. 2016 Shooting by: Ehssan Al-Shahabi Diracted by: Issam Khoury Thousand of refugees, who migrated from countryside Damascus, Quneitra and Daraa. Now lives in Zaizon refugee camp located west of Darhaa south Syria near the border with Jordan.  

Safe Zones and Reduced Tension Areas

  July، 2017   Before Donald Trump’s second debate with Hilary Clinton, Oz Sultan, Trump’s Advisor for Religious and Terrorism Affairs during the election period, visited Senior advisor for the Middle East in  Strategic XXI , Issam Khoury. He presented Sultan with two project proposals for Center of Environmental and Social Development. The first was…

Syria and Iraq: Religion and Migration in the Face of Violence

March, 3-4.2017 Princeton Forced Migration Conference Cameron Hume, Georgetown University Moderator Sarab al-Jijakli, Network of Arab-American Professionals Mustafa Hmood, Iraqi/Syrian Student Project Issam Khoury, Center for Environmental and Social Development Becca Keener, Princeton University, Student Rapporteur

An exiled Syrian journalist tells us what it was like to write under Assad

Veronika Bondarenko Issam Khoury has been writing about civil rights abuses in Syria for more than a decade Even before he started covering the civil war in Syria, Issam Khoury was under constant threat for what he wrote. After growing up in the western Syrian city of Latakia, the future journalist started writing about human…

The sixth anniversary of the Syrian revolution, 2017

 By: Issam Khoury Four and a half hours in bus which carried Syrian activists from New York to Washington D.C, were all Syrian communities from different US states met. Every year Syrian communities arrange the anniversary of the Syrian revolution, this year March 18.2017 اربع ساعات ونصف استغرقت الحافلة التي قلت النشطاء السوريين من نيويورك…

Our Dream

Our Dream, Washington, DC. March 18.2017 حلمنا، تم التصوير في العاصمة واشنطن آذار ١٨ عام ٢٠١٧

Hezbollah and its Internal System

By: Issam Khoury 11/08/2010 After the death of the Secretary General of the party, Abbas al- Musawi, a greater leadership was created, represented by what is called a ‘Consultative Council.’ The name derives from a verse from the Qur’aan: “They must consult each other.” It consists of seven members; each  undertakes a certain role and…

Six years and the murder continues

Six years and the murder continues, Washington, DC, March 18.2017 ست سنين والقتل مستمر، تم التصوير في العاصمة واشنطن يوم ١٨آذار ٢٠١٧