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I am sitting in my living room in London, trying to steal a moment of calm between Zoom meetings and the playful demands of my young daughters, Sama and Taima. As for so many, the pandemic has upended our lives: schools are closed; we must work at home; we’re isolated. A virus has us under siege, and I am reminded in a way I didn’t expect of life in war-torn Syria. Take masks. In Syria, we knew the incessant feeling of something stifling our mouths, hindering us from breathing, speaki...

This article is part of a limited series marking a decade since the start of the Syrian revolution. Read this piece, originally written in Arabic, here.  It has been a decade since the outbreak of the Syrian revolution, the divergence of its paths and the onset of the Arab Spring.  There is no better time than the present to recall that event and tackle it from different angles. We can recall the moment of hope that accompanied these revolutions, or focus on what the uprisings represented whe...

Wars timeline as Syrians mark 10 years since uprising began By The Associated Press Associated Press March 15, 2021 — 1:58am Text size Copy shortlink: BEIRUT — Syrians are marking 10 years since peaceful protest...

Robert Alter on Nabokov’s Literary Invention March 17, 2021 Vladimir Nabokov remains one of the most polarizing of the major novelists who have written in English. His admirers are passionate about him. These include both critics and many novelists in England, America, and elsewhere. Some gestures of imitation have been made by other writers, though as is generally the case with writers of the first order of originality—Proust and Kafka come to mind—these efforts have not been very succes...

Comments The New Danny Boy video released to honor all those who passed away due to COVID and the frontline workers battling the pandemic. St. Patricks Day is a time for celebration, but also of remembrance. Our treasured history, unique culture, the many people who came before us that allow us to celebrate today. Sign up to IrishCentrals newsletter to stay up-to-date with everything Irish!Subscribe to IrishCentral Sligo St. Patricks Day Parade has released a poignant performance that m...

Kids Read Now is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization with the singular mission to eliminate learning loss for all K-3 students (LEXINGTON, Ky.) — NEWS: Kids Read Now has partnered with school districts across Kentucky, including Carroll County Schools, Montgomery County Schools, Berea Independent, and Elizabethtown Independent Schools, to mail books directly to their students’ homes over the summer. The number of students in the Kids Read Now program continues to grow with almost 400,000 boo...

March 17, 2021 Share Daraa was an impoverished, neglected provincial city in the farmlands of Syria’s south, an overwhelmingly Sunni Muslim backwater far from the more cosmopolitan cities of the country’s heartland. But in March 2011 it became the first to explode against the rule of President Bashar Assad. Assad’s decision to crush the initially peaceful protests propelled Syria into a civil war that has killed more than a half million people, driven half the population from thei...

BICOM 17th March 2021 A video report from BBC News explores the thousands of schools destroyed in Syria over the last 10 years and speaks to survivors of the bombing of a school in the Aleppo countryside. The Independent reports on the bleak future that Syria’s children face after the civil war. The paper notes that “nearly 2.5 million children in Syria, plus a further 750,000 Syrian child refugees in neighbouring countries, do not go to school�...

Anger simmers over Syrias economic collapse, but Assad appears secure Reuters 3/16/2021 By Suleiman Al-Khalidi © Reuters/KHALIL ASHAWI FILE PHOTO: People stand in a queue to get bread in the border town of Tal Abyad By Suleiman Al-Khalidi AMMAN (Reuters) - In the back alleys of the old city of Damascus, Yaseen al-Obeid carries sacks of bricks to make some extra cash and supplement his monthly foremans salary of $15. © Reuters/Marko Djurica FILE PHOTO: Life in Assad’s...

New Eastern Outlook of the Russian Academy of Science, founded in 1816 The US is engaged in a war in Syria, no secret to anyone there, it has been going on for a long time. Unlike other US wars, started after 9/11 ostensibly to root out those chosen to be blamed for 9/11, the US is in Syria to save the Syrian people from being subjugated by ISIS. But the US never leaves and as ISIS seems to disappear, the US keeps bringing more and more troops in, seizing more and more territory and only has on...