My Education on the Border of the Syrian War - The New Yorker
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- تعليمي على حدود الحرب السورية - ذا نيو يوركر
- English title
- My Education on the Border of the Syrian War - The New Yorker
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I had taken a year off from college to figure out whether I would professionally pursue music or journalism, and so I tried both. I had no plans to enter Syria—only to meet war correspondents as they went in and out of the country, and to learn how to navigate the moral and logistical challenges that arise in conflict reporting. A journalism professor of mine gave me contacts in Kilis, the last Turkish town on the north-south road to Aleppo. There, I would meet a Syrian activist, a software engineer and hacker who went by the code name Harvester. “You will find Kilis very interesting,” another…source ↗