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Items by Sahid Daud
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After Assad: Syria’s struggle with invasion, division and a new leader
The scars of a 14-year civil war were clearly on display when I arrived in Damascus. Buildings were either reduced to rubble, their facades heavily damaged or blackened from intense fire. But the city pulsated with energy – Syria’s capital was breathing again. I had arrived in the capital on…
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The journalist who threw shoes at George W Bush
Fifteen years after his brazen act of defiance of throwing shoes at the then US President George W Bush, Muntadhar Al-Zaidi has an important message about Gaza and for Bush himself. Tracking him down was not an easy task. I spent days going from coffee house to tea house across…