Syrian

Breadcrumb Trail LinksLifeEating & DrinkingCultureBooksNewfoundlander Karen E. Fisher collaborated with more than 2,000 Syrians to create the Zaatari cookbook, filled with stories of art, culture and food Get the latest from Laura Brehaut straight to your inbox Sign Up Published Mar 01, 2024  •  Last updated 17 minutes ago  •  11 minute read Clockwise from top left: Zaatari Camp on the Jordanian-Syrian border, shish barak, qatayef and tesqieh. FOOD PHOTOGRAPHY BY ALEX LAU WITH JASON LECRAS/ZAATARI CAMP PHOTO BY…

At Lankum’s sold-out concert at Cork Opera House last summer, their sharp-suited support act had the crowd in the palm of his bouzouki-strumming hand. It was Kurdish Syrian singer and musician Mohammad Syfkhan, whose debut album I Am Kurdish has become part of a thriving, collaborative music scene in one of Ireland’s smallest counties.A 57-year-old father of five whose music is a thrilling mix of electrified Kurdish, Arabic and Turkish traditional songs, covers and originals, Syfkhan arrived in Ireland as part of a…

During the twilight years of the Ottoman empire at the end of the 19th century, as ethnic tensions flare between the groups that inhabit its vast territories, a young boy flees a massacre and finds shelter in Aleppo with a wealthy Muslim family. Like his hosts, Hanna is part of the empire’s wealthy elite. Unlike them, he’s a Christian. Almost immediately, he becomes best friends with Zakariya, the son of his protectors. Over the next 70 years, Hanna and Zakariya’s friendship will be tested by every conceivable challenge:…

The earthquake destroyed many houses and buildings in northwestern Syria. Credit: Bahar Organization, CC BY-NC-ND Three weeks after the February 2023 earthquakes struck Turkey and Syria, I stood amid the rubble in Jindires, a devastated Syrian village. An estimated 50,000 people had lost their lives in the two countries by that point, with the number of casualties still climbing. …

Newly arrived refugees from Syria wait for tents to go up at the Za’atari refugee camp on January 30, 2013 in Mafraq, Jordan.Photo: Jeff J Mitchell (Getty Images)TikTok users who felt compelled to donate digital gifts to struggling Syrian refugee streamers may have unintentionally helped line the social media company’s pocketbooks. A new BBC investigation found that even before accounting for costs associated with money transfers and so-called “TikTok middlemen,” the live streaming refugees only ever received around 30%…

A Chinese action film executive-produced by Jackie Chan has triggered outrage after shooting scenes in al-Hajar al-Aswad, a Syrian town destroyed in the civil war.Home Operation, directed by Song Yinxi, is inspired by China’s evacuation of hundreds of its nationals from Yemen in 2015 during the civil conflict there, and is the first joint venture between Chinese and Emirati producers. AFP reported that Song said the film was intended to glorify the Chinese Communist party (CCP): “It takes the perspective of diplomats who…

Breadcrumb Trail Links News Canada The girl 'was disciplined for communicating with a boy' without the father's permission, court documents say Publishing date: May 20, 2022  •  25 minutes ago  •  3 minute read  •  90 Comments Article content A Nova Scotia court ruled it cannot intervene in the child protection case of a teenage Syrian refugee whose father allegedly beat her, breaking her nose, when he learned she had been texting a boy. Advertisement 2 This advertisement…