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Final proof submitted! Excited to see our edited anthology on #Refugee Governance in the Arab World, featuring wonderful contributors, come to life beginning 2025! bloomsbury.com/us/refugee-gov…

Defeating Assad: Ending the Nightmare - my first piece on Syria. open.substack.com/pub/zakariaals…

"«Ich habe ein ganzes Leben in der Schweiz» - "I have built an entire life in Switzerland"" As a journalist, I have been living in exile for 13 years. In my interview with the Swiss newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung NZZ , I spoke personally for the first time about my journey. At

Syrians' joy must be pure, their fear absolute, their desire to go home immediate... Syrians are assigned uncomplicated emotions, and denied the right to ambivalent, shifting reactions. Humanizing their story also means giving them time and space, after so much suppression.

Here's a personal thread about the very strong, complex emotions that I struggled with all of last week, since we watched Assad fall and Syria rise:

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I made a short trip to Damascus, from January 9 to 14, for the first time in 13 years. Some quick remarks here:

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This is one of the darkest days of my life as I witness ongoing #massacres in #Syria for the third consecutive day. The violence began when ex-regime loyalists ambushed security forces, resulting in heavy casualties. The situation quickly escalated, leading to widespread killings

Eltern, die sich die #Kinderbetreuung gerecht aufteilen, sind in Österreich selten. Forschende untersuchen, welche Erfahrungen und Alltagspraktiken #Väterkarenzen prägen. Sie erstellten eine Typologie von Vätern mit langen Karenzzeiten. #scilog Universität Wien scilog.fwf.ac.at/magazin/vaeter…

🚨 BREAKING: EU-funded research projects FAiR_return, GAPs Return Migration, More Project & MIrreM (Measuring Irregular Migration) call for greater transparency on how their work was used in the EU's Proposal for a Common System for Returns.

When I gaze at the beauty of nature around the world and can only access it through a phone screen, I ask myself: is it because I was born in a place I didn’t choose that I’m forced to endure things no human should ever have to bear or even imagine the horror of? Just the

Die Geschichte hinter dem letzten Foto, das ich gepostet habe. Schockierend waren viele widerliche Kommentare darunter. Habe einige menschenverachtende und rassistische davon blockiert. Der Fotograf wurde von der BBC interviewt bbc.com/news/videos/cz… diepresse.com/19933375