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2 months ago | timep.org | Noura Aljizawi |Douglas Christensen |Hamid Khalafallah

December 8, 2024, is a date Syrians will never forget—a day of liberation, marking the end of Bashar al-Assad’s decades-long reign. For the first time since the 2011 uprising, Syrians have begun to imagine a future free from the shadow of authoritarianism. Yet, as the delight of this historic moment fades, a darker reality emerges. Disinformation, a tool the Assad regime had wielded to control narratives and manipulate public opinion, did not disappear with his departure.

Nov 25, 2024 | citizenlab.ca | Jeffrey Knockel |Jakub Dalek |Noura Aljizawi |Mohamed Ahmed

We analyze the system Amazon deploys on the US “amazon.com” storefront to restrict shipments of certain products to specific regions. We found 17,050 products that Amazon restricted from being shipped to at least one world region. While many of the shipping restrictions are related to regulations involving WiFi, car seats, and other heavily regulated product categories, the most common product category restricted by Amazon in our study was books.

Sep 25, 2024 | timep.org | Zeead Yaghi |Kassem Mnejja |Justin Salhani |Noura Aljizawi

558 dead. That was the official number given by Firass Abiad, the Minister of Health for the Lebanese government on the morning of September 24, 2024. 558 people were killed by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) in a single day as it ramped up its bombing campaign across Lebanon. More have been killed since—at least 51 at the time of writing on September 25.

Sep 19, 2024 | timep.org | Kassem Mnejja |Justin Salhani |Noura Aljizawi |Hamid Khalafallah

Sudan has been caught in a devastating conflict since April 15, 2023, when fighting erupted between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF).

Sep 16, 2024 | timep.org | Noura Aljizawi |Justin Salhani |Jessica Doumit

Rawia* is a Syrian activist in Turkey and a mother of three beautiful children. She kept her children at home, locked the doors, closed the windows, and told them not to speak loudly so people wouldn’t hear them speak Arabic. Her fear for their safety increased after the outbreak of racist violence invoked against Syrians in the Turkish town of Kayseri, which spread like wildfire to other cities. She hoped the walls would shield them, so she kept her kids at home.