Performing Puccini to a rapt New York audience, her soprano voice soaring to the rafters, Lubana Al Quntar may be the last person most Americans would think to be a Syrian refugee. But half-an-hour’s drive from Donald Trump’s campaign headquarters, she and dozens of other classically...
(Eqtsad)- Abo Mohammed, a farmer from Jabal al-Akrad in the countryside of Latakia, used to produce dozens of tons of apples and peach, but now he relies on cigarettes wrapping for a shop in Antakya to earn some money to cover living cost. He works for more than 10 hours a day to...
Kafa Jawish hadn't slept in days, daydreaming of seeing her home in east Aleppo for the first time in four years, but when she arrived she found little more than rubble. The 36-year-old was among hundreds of Syrians returning to east Aleppo in recent days after the army recaptured large...
(Eqtsad)- The Kurdish Self Administration forced big amount of tax on people and workshops’ owners, which pushed them to leave the northern city of Efrin near Aleppo city. “Running away from taxes which turned me into a “worker”, to them, I have left Efrin to Nile Street in Aleppo, as...