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As war rages on, a message from inside Syria

by · June 11, 2012 · 15 Comments

One of the author's hosts in Aleppo.

I was staying at a beachfront hotel in Zanzibar, Tanzania when I saw the first images of the unrest in Syria on TV. I watched footage of Syrians in the southern city of Deraa brazenly burning the pictures of President Bashar al-Assad that once lined every street, store, restaurant, and home. I was glued to the news, watching the [...]

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