Another life

Another life, Aug 15
Shooting by: Amer Alnasser. Editing by: Roy Isber
Directed by: Issam Khoury

Aya Azzawi

  January 22, 2016: A day to remember for the rest of our lives. Everybody was preparing to fight the snow storm that put New Jersey in a state of emergency. Meanwhile, my family and I were having our own battle to fight. Our beloved daughter Aya Azzawi, born September 28, 2012, was diagnosed with…

My home

My Home, Daraa, Oct 2016 Cameraman: Muhammad Directed by: Issam Khoury

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…