https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/contributor/ali-safar/rss en Civil Society Education Thu, 06 Mar 2014 00:00:00 +0000 Ali Safar https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/articles/2014/03/06/in-deir-ezzor-education-continues-underground https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/articles/2014/03/06/in-deir-ezzor-education-continues-underground Teachers in Deir Ezzor province have created classrooms out of cellars in an effort to protect their students from aerial shelling. Here, we tell the story of three teachers struggling to continue their students’ education as war closes in. Civil Society Tue, 25 Feb 2014 00:00:00 +0000 Ali Safar https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/articles/2014/02/25/alone-in-moadimiya-but-vowing-to-stay https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/articles/2014/02/25/alone-in-moadimiya-but-vowing-to-stay Amer, a 24-year-old in Moadimiya, has vowed not to leave his hometown. But he says life in this besieged pro-opposition enclave near Damascus is getting harder. Civil Society Wed, 13 Nov 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Ali Safar https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/articles/2013/11/13/trapped-in-damascus-a-mothers-quest-to-reunite-with-her-family-in-egypt https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/articles/2013/11/13/trapped-in-damascus-a-mothers-quest-to-reunite-with-her-family-in-egypt Samar reaches for her phone and dials the number she has now memorized by heart. She waits, then gets the voice mail asking her to leave a message.