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Zaina Erhaim
Zaina Erhaim is is an award-winning Syrian journalist and campaigner
December 2016
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My friends in Aleppo would rather die than face capture by Assad’s militias
Zaina Erhaim
Syrians in exile have spent these last terrible days without sleep, desperate for news of loved ones and cursing the useless UN
February 2015
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Syrians have been oppressed by a dictator and jihadists, and bombed by the west – and you call us terrorists?
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Our reward for staying in Aleppo to help the struggle against Assad and Isis? Being treated as dangerous Islamists by the west
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