Syria Project

Syria Project: Gaziantep – Final Day

As I end this adventure, I find it very hard to avoid the use of a cliché in the final blog post.
Syria Project: Gaziantep - Day 9

Today, I learned the meaning of the word “forgiveness.” It took a person who probably doesn’t know the English word to teach me what it meant.
Syria Project: Gaziantep – Day 6

There are certain sentences you don’t expect to hear in Gaziantep, Turkey. One of them is “Canada is my favourite country.”
Syria Project: Gaziantep – Day 5

Thursday night, a young female Syrian journalist and her mother were killed in Istanbul. A Turkish newspaper reports the two women were strangled, then stabbed.
Syria Project: Gaziantep – Day 2

You learn four hundred new things every day. If that’s not quite how the saying goes, please forgive me. That’s my reality this week. This is the experience of a western journalist in Gaziantep, Turkey.
Syria Project: Gaziantep - Day 1

I think it’s safe to assume that Reem Haleb still has a scar from where a bullet broke her skin five years ago.
Syria Project: Day 1

As we end our first half day in Istanbul, I suppose it's time to open this blog.