Kiana HAYERI

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Carlotta Gall |Kiana HAYERI

Hind Kabawat hopes her long experience as a conflict mediator can help Syria's next generation. The challenges are immense. Hind Kabawat, the only female minister in Syria's new government, in her house, in Bab Touma, a majority Christian neighborhood of Damascus. Credit... In a white pantsuit, Hind Kabawat stood out a mile, the only woman in a lineup of 23 men in suits, all ministers of the interim Syrian government just sworn in, flanking the president.

3 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Carlotta Gall |Saad Alnassife |Kiana HAYERI

Syria's ousted dictator, Bashar al-Assad, unleashed a Sarin gas strike on the suburbs of Damascus in 2013, killing at least 1,500. Now, the survivors want justice. The basement of an underground medical center in eastern Ghouta, Syria, where victims of a chemical attack were taken in 2013. Credit... It was a hot, windless summer night, just after 2 a.m., when a barrage of rockets slammed into the Damascus suburb of eastern Ghouta.

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Raja Abdulrahim |Kiana HAYERI

As the minutes ticked closer to sundown, the crowd grew more impatient, pressing against the glass display case, shouting and shoving bills toward the young men filling order after order of the Ramadan sweet bread. " What is this stuffed with? "The high-pressure volley of queries, entreaties and pleas for patience plays out each evening of Ramadan as Syrians jostle for marook, a sweet bread eaten here during the Muslim fasting month.

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Abdi Latif Dahir |Justin Scheck |Kiana HAYERI

Image Líderes de África Oriental y miembros de la realeza saudita se encuentran entre quienes se benefician de un lucrativo y mortal comercio de trabajadoras del hogar. Un día cualquiera en Kenia, decenas, si no es que cientos de mujeres van de un lado para otro en la zona de salidas del aeropuerto internacional de Nairobi. Se agrupan para tomarse selfis con camisetas iguales, hablando de cómo gastarán el dinero de sus nuevos empleos en Arabia Saudita.

2 months ago | nytimes.com | Raja Abdulrahim |Kiana HAYERI

The first ransom demand came in a text message on Sami al-Izoo's phone 10 days after he witnessed his brother being kidnapped, forced into a truck with dark tinted windows by six masked men. Next came a video in which he said his brother, Abdulrazaq al-Izoo, 60, appeared with his hands tied and a black bag over his head, screaming as he was hit with a stick. Since then, the videos and threats have continued to buzz Mr. al-Izoo's phone as he struggles to raise the $400,000 that the kidnappers want.