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Profile: Iranian dissident Mansoora Bahkish, Mother of Martyrs

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- “The Mother of Martyrs”, Iranian opposition woman had died few days ago, and now she would meet her 6 sons and a daughter and son-in-law who were killed by the Iranian regime. She spent her life between graveyards and prisons as she spent years...

Om Omar, Lebanese woman opened her house for disabled Syrians

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Aisha al-Hajiri, or Om Omar, a widow in her fifties from Arsal, has devoted her life after her husband’s death to help the disabled, although she is not that affluent, but she has turned her 2-room-house into a center to look after disabled and...

Escaping Syria To Harvest Hashish In Lebanon

 In a village in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, Syrians from Raqqa have been coming to harvest cannabis for almost a decade. Now, Raqqa is under Islamic State control and the border crossing is more difficult than ever. One woman recently risked her life for work in Lebanon. Like the...