Mateo Nelson
@mateonelson.bsky.social
English Editor at Syria Direct
@syriadirect.bsky.social
Arabic ➡️ English translator
@syriadirect.bsky.social
Arabic ➡️ English translator
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‘Two prisons’: Freed from detention, Syrian women face a second trial
✍️ Bushra Alzoubi
✍️ Bushra Alzoubi
‘Two prisons’: Freed from detention, Syrian women face a second trial
As Syrians mark the first anniversary of the fall of Assad on December 8, 2024, women who survived regime detention warn their ordeal did not end when they were released. For many, society remains a s...
syriadirect.org
December 8, 2025 at 2:40 PM
‘Two prisons’: Freed from detention, Syrian women face a second trial
✍️ Bushra Alzoubi
✍️ Bushra Alzoubi
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Dueling with drought: How can Daraa farmers adapt to a changing climate?
✍️ @walid-alnofal.bsky.social
✍️ @walid-alnofal.bsky.social
Dueling with drought: How can Daraa farmers adapt to a changing climate?
As Syria stares down drought and a changing climate, farmers and officials in agriculture-dependent Daraa province grapple with how to adapt.
syriadirect.org
October 14, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Dueling with drought: How can Daraa farmers adapt to a changing climate?
✍️ @walid-alnofal.bsky.social
✍️ @walid-alnofal.bsky.social
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In nearly 23 months, at least 210 journalists have been killed by the Israeli army in Gaza, according to @rsf.org. More have been injured and face constant threats to their lives for doing their jobs. This is a direct attack on press freedom and the right to information. Learn more:
RSF and Avaaz launch international media operation: “At the rate journalists are being killed in Gaza by the Israeli army, there will soon be no one left to keep you informed”
Hundreds of media outlets, brought together by the campaigning platform Avaaz and Reporters Without Borders (RSF), are waging a campaign calling for the protection of Palestinian journalists in Gaza, ...
rsf.org
September 1, 2025 at 12:14 PM
In nearly 23 months, at least 210 journalists have been killed by the Israeli army in Gaza, according to @rsf.org. More have been injured and face constant threats to their lives for doing their jobs. This is a direct attack on press freedom and the right to information. Learn more:
Reposted by Mateo Nelson
This is not just another crime committed by a serial killer of press freedom. It is the fact that over more than 200 Palestinian journalists have been killed by the ongoing genocide. This cycle will be repeated so long the world, including their colleagues, will not do better to stop this.
August 10, 2025 at 10:18 PM
This is not just another crime committed by a serial killer of press freedom. It is the fact that over more than 200 Palestinian journalists have been killed by the ongoing genocide. This cycle will be repeated so long the world, including their colleagues, will not do better to stop this.
Reposted by Mateo Nelson
Devastated by war, farmers return life to Syria’s ‘oasis’
✍️ Hanna Davis
syriadirect.org/devastated-b...
✍️ Hanna Davis
syriadirect.org/devastated-b...
Devastated by war, farmers return life to Syria’s ‘oasis’
DARAYYA/DOUMA — In the 12th century, the Andalusian poet and traveler Ibn Jubayr described the agricultural lands around Damascus as “the halo around the moon.”
“Its green valley extends east as far...
syriadirect.org
March 24, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Devastated by war, farmers return life to Syria’s ‘oasis’
✍️ Hanna Davis
syriadirect.org/devastated-b...
✍️ Hanna Davis
syriadirect.org/devastated-b...