September 2019

All posts from September 2019

Humanitarian Catastrophe: Hundreds of Thousands Displaced as Shelling Escalates in Southern Idlib Countryside

by Mahmoud Barakat on September 13, 2019

During the past few weeks, regime forces targeted several towns in the northern countryside of Hama and the southern countryside of Idlib, which led to a large wave of displacement towards the northern countryside near the Syrian-Turkish border. This threatens a humanitarian catastrophe due to the increase in the number of displaced people, especially after the regime took over Khan Sheikhoun.

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Mahmoud BarakatHumanitarian Catastrophe: Hundreds of Thousands Displaced as Shelling Escalates in Southern Idlib Countryside

Everywhere but Nowhere: Yassin Al-Haj Saleh’s Understanding of Exiles

by ElSayed ElSehamy on September 4, 2019
Abstract:
Following the Arab uprisings, the displacement of millions of Syrians has raised the phenomenon of collective exiles, seen in Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan and Germany. Al-Haj Saleh’s emerging account on exile is one of the accounts that tapped into the subject of exile in light of these uprisings.
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ElSayed ElSehamyEverywhere but Nowhere: Yassin Al-Haj Saleh’s Understanding of Exiles