BY AILEEN ZANGOUEI Iranian women were left feeling “humiliated” and in tears when the ban on women participating in public sporting events had them protesting on the streets, while everyone else watched the game. On Tuesday, Sept 5 Iran’s Azadi…
This exhibition gives a voice to the silenced women prisoners of Syria
BY: SYDNEY KEEFE Manchester based organization, Rethink Rebuild Society recently held an important event to highlight the horrific aspects of Syrian imprisonment under Assad’s regime. Assad’s regime has been accused of barrel bombing and the use of torture detention centers.…
This British woman went from being a hitchhiking nomad to fighting on the frontlines in Syria
BY: NADIA ZAIDI Kimberly Taylor is the first British woman to join the fight against ISIS in Syria. She has joined the Women’s Protection Units, which is the all-female affiliate army of the People’s Protection Units of Kurdistan. She’s one…
In a war-torn country, these unarmed volunteers risk their lives to save thousands of innocent people
BY: CHARLOTTE LEFAVE In Syria bombs are being dropped daily onto innocent civilian villages, flattening thousands of homes and burying helpless townsfolk underneath the rubble. In the face of the blasts and fires that rage in the aftermath of the…
IKEA recreates Syrian home to show guests a cruel reality
By: Zoe Melnyk A trip to IKEA usually involves a lot of walking around, some cafeteria food that is surprisingly good, and the occasional panic attack when you can’t figure out how to leave. It also involves dozens of miniature set…
Civil War is leaving the door open for the liberation of women in Syria
BY: AIDAN MACNAB Aylan Kurdi was the two-year-old boy whose corpse, photographed washed up on a Turkish beach, shook the world. Sympathy for his tragic end ignited the globe. Refugees had been asphyxiating in crates, drowning in the Mediterranean, starving…
These journalists used Snapchat to live stream the migration of refugees from Syria to Germany
BY: DAVID LAO The huge influx of Syrian refugees towards the west has received an explosion of media coverage over the last few months, raising debates on topics including Europe’s treatment of refugees as well as whether or not they’re…