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Jun 10
🧵 As Syria charts a new course and transitional justice efforts proceed, advocates see a unique opportunity to reform the country’s nationality law and address statelessness.
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Jun 10
7⃣ "Statelessness is connected to forced displacement, disappearances, and all the other harms we speak about in transitional justice," said Roua al-Taweel, a researcher and trustee at @Hawiati_MENA.
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Jun 10
Nationality law reform: Who has the ‘right to have rights’ in the new Syria?
✍️ @natacha_danon
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Jun 4
🧵 Caught between a seemingly absent Syrian government and a growing Israeli presence, Mount Hermon’s Druze villages are waiting for a clarity neither Damascus nor Tel Aviv seems willing to provide.
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8⃣ Yet while some in surrounding villages perceive an alliance, those inside the Druze villages describe a stance of survival rather than partnership. "The Israeli presence is not in anyone’s control," said Sheikh Deeb Abdulsamad. "We are Syrians and our loyalty is to our land."
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Jun 4
Syria’s forgotten villages: Mount Hermon’s Druze between Damascus and the IDF
✍️ Fadi Ibrahim and Hicham El Bouhmidi
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May 27
🧵 Soil salinization is a complex and expanding crisis in rural Raqqa, where fields are becoming unusable and farmers have limited means to respond.
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May 27
9⃣ But the cost of some interventions is high, and may come too late for some land to be recovered. Still, agricultural engineer Muhammad Noor al-Ibrahim says recovery remains possible through "resuming maintenance...regulating water management and changing farming practices."
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May 27
White earth: Soil salinization threatens farming in Raqqa’s Euphrates river basin
✍️ @walid_ALnofal
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