English – Assad And Me

An exiled Syrian journalist tells us what it was like to write under Assad

By, Veronika Bondarenko, Business Insider, Even before he started covering the civil war in Syria, Issam Khoury was under constant threat for what he wrote. After growing up in the western Syrian city of Latakia, the future journalist started writing about human rights violations as he witnessed them unfold. Between 2001 and 2002, Khoury published…
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The agony of Syrian journalists

Issam Khoury has been detained, interrogated, beaten and tortured, and forced to flee his country because of his journalism and political activism over the last 15 years in Syria, a country torn apart by revolution and the reprisals of a brutal regime led by Bashar al-Assad.
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Newmark J-School, Praise for Issam Khoury’s “Assad and Me”

The goddess Fashion, who throughout all ages has waged war on the productions of the goldsmith, has laid a heavier hand on these than on any other forms of personal ornament.
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