Published in The Mail on Sunday (August 25th, 2013) More than 100,000 Syrians lie dead. One-fifth of a 22 million population has been displaced. Yet even a few months […]
Jordan / Syria / World
Revealed: The schoolboy who sparked the Syrian revolution
Published in The Mail on Sunday (April 28th, 2013) It was a typical day for the teenagers, with school followed by a game of football – no different […]
Jordan / Syria / World
Inside Syria’s cauldron of despair
Published in The Mail on Sunday (March 10th, 2013) As she sat inside a huge hangar, Nagham recalled the moment when any last vestiges of childhood innocence were […]
Syria / World
Massacres, emails, and a modern Marie Antoinette
Published in the Daily Mail (March 15th, 2012) Among a stash of emails that emerged yesterday, apparently sent by the Syrian president and his wife, it is the […]
Syria / World
A brave reporter and her passion for speaking the truth
Published in the Daily Mail (February 23rd, 2012) The air was thick with tear gas, angry crowds confronted soldiers aiming bullets at their eyes, and motorcycle ambulances driven […]
Syria / World
The danger of us intervening in Syria’s bloodshed
Published in the London Evening Standard (February 13th, 2012) The scenes are unbearable. Children with their faces blown away, young men with legs severed, women bleeding slowly to […]
Syria / World
Slaughter of the olive branch martyrs
Published in The Mail on Sunday (May 1st, 2011) The story of the Syrian uprising is being told in short sentences. The regime has driven out foreign journalists, […]
Syria / World
Why Britain must try to stop the slaughter in Syria
Published in the London Evening Standard (April 27th, 2011) Libya made history last month by becoming the first nation to be suspended from the United Nations Human Rights […]
Syria / World
Inside Syria: Secret police tell parents of arrested protesters to forget their children and have some more
Published in The Mail on Sunday (April 17th, 2011) Khalid was not a political activist, just an ordinary middle-class man inspired by the tide of change sweeping across […]