Sally Hayden
Journalist at Freelance
'My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World's Deadliest Migration Route' (Orwell Prize, Terzani Prize, Irish Book of the Year). Corr @irishtimes.
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1 week ago |
irishtimes.com | Sally Hayden
It used to be a school. The blackboards are still there, though they have gaping holes in their centres, and the ground is loaded with dirt and rubble. This is where a single father and his nine children have made their home, beside the famous 13th-century Khalid ibn al-Walid Mosque in Homs, Syria’s third-largest city. They cook in a room missing its outer wall, and wash in a hidden space in another, with water from jerrycans.
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1 week ago |
irishtimes.com | Sally Hayden
A series of commemorative events have begun taking place across Lebanon, as the country marks the 50th anniversary since the start of its lengthy civil war. April 13th, 1975 was the beginning of a 15-year conflict that would kill about 150,000 people and leave some 17,000 missing. Half a century later, many Lebanese people are making efforts to ensure this will not happen again. “If I can change, anyone can change,” said Walid Saab (61), once a fighter in the Chouf region.
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2 weeks ago |
irishtimes.com | Sally Hayden
On a shopping street close to the famous Homs Clock Tower, a small, elderly man is peering at socks hanging in a window, decorated with misshapen faces of ousted dictator Bashar al-Assad and his relatives. A civil engineer, the man says he was jailed under the Assad regime several times, lost work and saw “many people die”. But these socks, he feels, are unnecessary. “It’s not right to create something like this ... it’s not polite,” he says. “I am from Homs, I supported the revolution ... We won.
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2 weeks ago |
irishtimes.com | Sally Hayden
The trail of an Israeli warplane was visible in the sky, on the approach to the southern Syrian village of Chajara, where Wissam, a 41-year-old mother of six, lay on a cushion, waiting to undergo surgery to remove shrapnel from her body. The surgery will cost €2,000(€1,800), money her family is trying to raise through donations from neighbours.
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3 weeks ago |
irishtimes.com | Sally Hayden
Photographs of the dead lined the walls as a series of speakers took to a microphone to tell stories – interspersed with music – about Yarmouk Camp. Behind them, armed men from the interim government’s security forces peeked out of a blackened building. Unlike most others around, it was still standing.
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“It was mind blowing, we didn't believe. We were crying, laughing... We heard bombing in the sky, shooting, then all of a sudden the mosques started to recite ‘there is victory, we are victorious’. I was at home and started crying.” - Fihmye (61) on the Assad regime's fall - Homs https://t.co/GMjhCXuYMm
Beirut bathroom graffiti 🇱🇧 https://t.co/EOGHD6sdVy
A lovely piece by @sheiladecourcy in the @Independent_ie this week: https://t.co/W7GLalBjhH https://t.co/TmsaQl2Hl7
