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3 weeks ago | 
nytimes.com | Aryn Baker |Laura Boushnak
When she finds it hard to focus, Nilab jots down her worries on slips of paper and pins them to her wall, a strategy she picked up in a seminar on mental health at the American University of Afghanistan in Kabul. She makes a mental note to deal with the issues at a scheduled time and then gets back to studying.
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1 month ago | 
businessandamerica.com | Raja Abdulrahim |Laura Boushnak
Lubna Labaad walked among a flattened wasteland that was once her neighbors’ homes. The only building left standing was a mosque, a years-old message scrawled on its outer wall from when rebels surrendered control of the area to the Syrian regime during the country’s brutal civil war: “Forgive us, oh martyrs.”Now, many former residents of the Qaboun neighborhood in the capital, Damascus — like Ms. Labaad, her husband, Da’aas, and their 8-year-old son — are trying to come back.
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1 month ago | 
nytimes.com | Raja Abdulrahim |Laura Boushnak
Lubna Labaad walked among a flattened wasteland that was once her neighbors' homes. The only building left standing was a mosque, a years-old message scrawled on its outer wall from when rebels surrendered control of the area to the Syrian regime during the country's brutal civil war: "Forgive us, oh martyrs."Now, many former residents of the Qaboun neighborhood in the capital, Damascus - like Ms. Labaad, her husband, Da'aas, and their 8-year-old son - are trying to come back.
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2 months ago | 
nytimes.com | Abdi Latif Dahir |Laura Boushnak
As the war between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah intensified last September, Abed Al Kadiri sat glued to the television in the art studio where he was working in Kuwait. Mr. Al Kadiri watched as Beirut, the Lebanese capital and city of his childhood, was ravaged by Israeli bombardments. He was distraught about what members of his family, including his mother and 13-year-old son, along with his friends, were enduring there.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
nytimes.com | Abdi Latif Dahir |Laura Boushnak
The business owners arrived one by one, but all were united in their mission on a chilly December morning: Salvage anything from the pulverized market in this hillside city in southern Lebanon. A photo studio operator and his son trudged through debris and twisted metal to recover dust-coated negatives and camera lenses. A clothes shop proprietor dragged a garbage bag holding leggings, retrieved from under mangled rebar.
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
businessandamerica.com | Abdi Dahir |Laura Boushnak
The business owners arrived one by one, but all were united in their mission on a chilly December morning: Salvage anything from the pulverized market in this hillside city in southern Lebanon. A photo studio operator and his son trudged through debris and twisted metal to recover dust-coated negatives and camera lenses. A clothes shop proprietor dragged a garbage bag holding leggings, retrieved from under mangled rebar.
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Jan 5, 2025 | 
nytimes.com | Raja Abdulrahim |Laura Boushnak
Residents of Syria's capital are picnicking on a once-forbidden mountaintop and trading openly in dollars and imported Nescafe. They say the city seems theirs again. Mount Qasioun, which overlooks the Syrian capital, Damascus, is being revived as a leisure spot. Residents of Syria's capital are picnicking on a once-forbidden mountaintop and trading openly in dollars and imported Nescafe. They say the city seems theirs again.
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Dec 27, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Laura Boushnak |Alan Yuhas
From Egypt, Baian and her aunt traveled to Bologna in February. In Italy, Baian has spent time in four hospitals, and her condition has greatly improved. She has learned some Italian, and started swimming classes as therapy for her leg. Since doctors say that Baian's treatment will take almost two years, Ms. Hasanian has applied for asylum and to bring her daughter to join them. Many of the children's scars are unseen. Sarah Yusuf, 6, freezes when she hears fireworks pop over Bologna at night.
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Dec 25, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Euan Ward |Laura Boushnak
The destruction, however, is not easy to ignore. On the city's main shopping street, businesses that once bustled in the holiday season have been pulverized, and some of those that remain have been blackened by fire. Jewelry stores, restaurants, chic swimwear outlets - many have been reduced to rubble, the torsos of shop mannequins strewed amid the rubble. In the remnants of one residential building, a sole curtain fluttered in the wintry breeze; the floors below it were collapsed like a pancake.
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Oct 26, 2024 | 
telegraphindia.com | Laura Boushnak |Cassandra Vinograd
The two-bedroom apartment, for example, where his family had sought shelter. They had crammed into it with about 70 relatives after fleeing the fighting in Gaza, but when they left for Jordan, the stocks of flour were empty Laura Boushnak, Cassandra Vinograd Amman (Jordan) Published 26.10.24, 10:40 AM Representational image File image The skies were quiet and Mohammed Ashour was finally safe, but for days after leaving Gaza the 13-year-old was unable to sleep.
