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Home » syria

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Fields inside Israel, just a few hundred meters from the Gaza fence, burnt by fires started by Molotov cocktails affixed to kites flying from Gaza in 2018
Posted inNews & Politics

Swords to plowshares

by Samar and Zak Witus June 14, 2021August 18, 2021

An interfaith demand for justice in Palestine and Israel

Posted inNews & Politics

White? Asian? African? Chicagoans with Middle Eastern and North African roots feel erased by census

by Alexis Kwan and City Bureau November 13, 2019August 18, 2021

Local groups say it’s essential for people to participate even if they don’t see a racial/ethnic category on the form that fits them.

Posted inColumns & Opinion

Deconstructing the perpetual war machine

by Leonard C. Goodman July 3, 2019August 18, 2021

How Democrats and Republicans keep us constantly engaged in conflict.

Posted inNews & Politics

‘The house is yours’

by Max Budovitch April 11, 2019August 18, 2021

Resettlement agencies say refugees are moving to the suburbs in search of cheaper homes and better-paying jobs.

Posted inFilm

Starring a cast of nonactors, Capernaum examines the lives of refugees in a Beirut slum

by Andrea Gronvall March 1, 2019August 18, 2021

Nadine Labaki’s drama is almost too much realism to bear.

Posted inNews & Politics

Report from a Syrian refugee camp in Iraqi Kurdistan

by Olivier Kugler November 29, 2018August 18, 2021

An excerpt from the comics journalism collection Escaping Wars and Waves.

Posted inBlogs

Local Syrian-American doctors support Trump’s missile strikes, despite skepticism

by Sarah Conway April 27, 2017August 18, 2021

These Chicago-area doctors are concerned about president’s next step, but desperate for an end to the bloody civil war.

Posted inBlogs

Teaching Chicagoans that in Rojava, resistance is life

by Sarah Conway April 26, 2017August 18, 2021

At a talk Saturday, an intrigued local audience showed support for the radical leftist Kurdish utopia in Syria.

Posted inNews & Politics

After Trump’s air strikes, a Syrian asylum seeker remembers revolution and imprisonment in Damascus

by Sarah Conway April 20, 2017August 18, 2021

Abu Shadi, who survived torture by the Assad regime, says he feels torn between Trump and an apathetic world.

Posted inBlogs

Prosecutors want to put ex-CPS CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett in prison for more than seven years, and other Chicago news

by Kate Shepherd April 10, 2017August 18, 2021

Also, the Chicago Mariachi Project is working to preserve Mexican culture among local students.

Posted inBlogs

On Brian Williams’s terrible ‘beauty’ gaffe

by Michael Miner April 7, 2017August 18, 2021

The new anchor tried, and failed, to capture something complicated.

Posted inArts & Culture

Osama Alomar describes the Syrian conflict one very short story at a time

by Aimee Levitt April 6, 2017August 18, 2021

The emigre writer looks for peace of mind in America.

Posted inArts & Culture

Three selections from The Teeth of the Comb & Other Stories

by Osama Alomar April 6, 2017August 18, 2021

Three short stories from Syrian writer Osama Alomar’s book The Teeth of the Comb & Other Stories

Posted inFood & Drink

Chicago finally gets its first Kurdish restaurant

by Mike Sula February 23, 2017August 18, 2021

The proprietors hail from a province on Turkey’s southern border with Syria, but the Gundis is no Turkish restaurant.

Posted inBlogs

Some Syrian refugees arrive in Chicago at last

by Aimee Levitt February 9, 2017August 18, 2021

After a long wait, prolonged by the Trump executive order, a family finally makes it to Chicago.

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