(Al Jazeera)- With its rows of identical cottages, country houses and immaculately trimmed lawns, the Oxford countryside is quintessentially English. Syrian writer Zakaria Tamer and his wife Nadia may have spent more than two decades here, but upon entering their house one is catapulted into...

( The Independent )- Zahira (not her real name) was 45 when she was arrested at her workplace in a suburb of Damascus in 2013. As soon as she arrived at Al Mezzeh Military Airport, she was strip searched, tied to a bed and gang raped by five soldiers.  For the next 14 days, she was...

By Faris Rifai (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian journalist Jaber Bakr is working on a documentary film entitled "The Last Exit from al-Waer", which monitors the bitterness of the siege and displacement, and the last scenes of the departure of the residents of al-Waer neighborhood west of the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- In a small garden inside Dar al-Arqam for the disabled in the city of Harem in the countryside Idlib, Tasnim, 5, is playing with her peers in the house to forget the sounds of explosions and shelling. Tasnim lost her hearing, was struck by a state of panic and her walk...