“We Want to Remain Children of Our Homeland”: Syrians Hold On to Food Culture Through Years of War
People go about their day in Deir ez-Zor, the largest city in Eastern Syria. October 1994. Photo by Haubi Gerhard Haubold via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) “Do you know what foura is?” my friend Reem Kado, who hails from the city of Deir ez-Zor, asks me with a wide smile, pronouncing the word in […]
For the Syrian Perspective, Look No Farther than Syrians
In May 2025, two major global news outlets contacted me to see if I was available for a photojournalism assignment in my beloved Damascus, Syria. It marked a new and exciting turn in my career as a female photographer mainly concerned with Damascene domestic life, but I had a serious commitment I could not get […]