A century after her forebears fled massacres in Turkey for Armenia, Alla has gone the other way, hoping to win Turkish citizenship after leaving her impoverished homeland. She works as a nanny in Turkey but fears deportation, one of thousands of undocumented workers from the former Soviet...

(EQTSAD)- Sociologist Abdul Hafiz al-Hulani founded the social support clinic for handicapped to be a social center for the marginalized population in Arsal, Lebanon. The clinic established in a house in Arsal, a town north-east of Beirut, receives 355 cases of disabilities and does not...

Writing by Ali Eid; Translation by Rana Abdul (Zaman Al Wasl)- Doctors, university graduates, retired officers, thieves and criminals, volunteers, seniors over sixty and most of them past forty form the bulk of the “al-Baath Brigades” in Homs. Christians from the Homs countryside feature...

  (Zaman Al Wasl- AFP)- Activists have accused Iran of standing behind the fire that broke out in the Asruniyeh market of the Old City of Damascus, a UNESCO world heritage site. The market is adjacent to the famed Al-Hamidiyeh bazaar in one of the world's oldest cities. "It began at 06:00...