May, 03/2018, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, New York, NY By, karolina lukasiewicz Since 2011 when the civil war in Syria stared 2/3 of Syrians were displaced. This means 12 million people had to leave their homes. Majority of them – 6.3 million became displaced within Syria (they are called Internally Displaced People),…
Category: Interview
Interview with Voice of America about regarding the chemical attack in Syria
At 8:30 pm “Damascus time” on Saturday, 7 October 2018 A helicopter Took Of from Al-Domeir airport , and carried the code (Dika 427) and headed towards Duma in the Eastern Ghouta and was carrying gas Sarin and had 3 hovercraft and began to spin until the end of the hovercraft in front of it…
Home Song
January 28, 2017 Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ Home Song presented an intimate evening
City of Ghosts
Co-presented by BAM and Amazon Studios, City of Ghosts Film Directed by Matthew Heineman | 2017 In 2014, a group of anonymous activists under the name Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently banded together after their Syrian city was taken over by ISIS, attempting to stem the tide of the terrorist group’s misinformation campaign. In this powerful…
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…
بزنس انسايدر: صحافي سوري يعيش في المنفى يشرح معنى الكتابة تحت حُكم بشار الأسد
بزنس انسايدر– ترجمة إبراهيم قعدوني- السوري الجديد دأبَ عصام خوري على الكتابة حول انتهاكات الحقوق المدنية في سوريا لما يزيد عن عقد من الزمن، حتى قبل أن يبدأ بتغطية الحرب الأهلية في سوريا، كان عصام خوري يتعرّض للتهديد المستمر على خلفيّة ما كتَبَه سابقاً. نشأ عصام في مدينة اللاذقية الواقعة غرب سوريا وبعد أن أصبح صحافيّاً…
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…
Congressman pushes bill to assist Middle East religious minorities
GEORGE GOSS , JANUARY 19, 2017
Gate of Palmyra
By: Michael O’Brien New York. 2016 Last September, if you happened by City Hall Park, you might have noticed a two thousand year old imperial Roman ruin. Or at least what looked a lot like a Roman Ruin. The 25-foot-tall stone arch was a replica, created using 3D printing technology. The original was destroyed by…
The Wait
Amro was 25 when he fled Latakia, Syria, four years ago. Once a quiet coastal city that sits along the azure coast of the Mediterranean, Latakia is now home to a Russian air base where the sound of fighter jets reverberates above the city amidst the country’s ongoing civil war. When Amro left Syria, he traded…
كيف يمكن فك الحصار عن مضايا؟
فيما يطلق نشطاء سوريون حملات إعلامية لحث الأطراف الفاعلة على فك الحصار عن مضايا بريف دمشق، يعتقد مراقبون أن تلك الحملات على كثرتها، لا تملك المنهجية المطلوبة للنجاح.وفيما يعوّل البعض على دور حاسم للأطراف الخارجية في إنهاء مأساة عشرات آلاف المحاصرين الذين يموتون جوعاً في مضايا، ومناطق سورية أخرى، يرى آخرون أن وجود استراتيجية سليمة…
إلى أين آلت فرص “الحُلم الكردي” في شمال شرق سوريا؟
مقابلة بقلم: اياد الجعفري الاقتصادي/ زمان الوصل 07/01/2015 من الصعوبة بمكان تأسيس دولة مستقلة للأكراد شمال سوريا. أما تأسيس حكم ذاتي واسع الصلاحيات، متفاهم مع تركيا، وجزء من الوطن السوري الكبير، فهو سيناريو وارد بقوة، خاصة بعد أحداث عين العرب “كوباني”. و”الفيدرالية” قد تكون الخيار الأمثل لسوريا المستقبل…تلك كانت خلاصة حوار مفصّل مع عصام خوري،…
