The numbers are screaming out at us that by the end of the year 2012 we will have reached 700,000 refugees have fled Syria and are in the neighboring countries. Most of these are in Jordan and more and more are coming. This has become more then a humanitarian crisis of all proportions. The neighboring...
Syria Update, September 29, 2012 (Institute of Middle Eastern, Islamic and Strategic Studies. By Sherifa Zuhur) Death toll: More than 94 Friday’s revised death toll: More than 160 including 104 unarmed civilians. A report from Medicins sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) from Syria:http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/news/article.cfm?id=6324&cat=voice-from-the-field Aleppo province: A major fire engulfed the medieval markets, a tourist attraction...
Last night, I was having a conversation with a friend, and a friend of hers that I had just met. Of course we all talked about what we did and I said I work for a tour company that specializes in the Middle East and North Africa. My friend, who knew this, said how interesting...
Rita recently spoke with family members in Aleppo and her is what she heard from them: I talked to family last night in Aleppo and they said this is the first time that they have had the shelling so close to home. It is moving from the old city and the outskirts of Aleppo to...
I recently came across this article that I am sure anyone who has flown can relate to. You know the dread of boarding a plane and realizing there is an infant on board and you just know they are going to start crying when their ears are adjusting to the pressure change, or they are...