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Project Transient website

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I spoke to Anobel yesterday – Project Transient is now live!
Anobel has done a fantastic job on the website – check it out:
http://projecttransient.com
Some words from Anobel from the Project Transient site:
The Iraq war has displaced millions of Iraqis from their homes, and their stories have been largely neglected. The goal of this project was to [...]

Syria: Al Hasakah – Assyrian New Year & Machine Gun Man

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After Dier Ez-Zur Anobel and I caught a bus to Hasakah, a town in north eastern Syria 50kms or so from the Iraq border.
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Why? To spend a few days exploring the Assyrian villages around Hasaka and experience all that is the Assyrian new year.
As our minibus got closer to Hasaka we were [...]

Syria: Damascus – a visit to the Iraqi refugee camp “Jaramana”

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Due to an extreme case of self-diagnosed slackness I haven’t been hitting the streets taking too many pictures of what Damascus could possibly be like. Oh yes I’ve been in Damascus, the capital of Syria, for the past few days

(photo courtesy of http://anobelodisho.com/blog)
The other reason I blame my lack in getting some post/photos [...]