By now, it’s pretty apparent that the Syrian regime listens to no one. And yet, as the friends I know who have spent time in Syrian prisons tell me, international attention does matter: it might help a blogger get better treatment, evade torture. Hussein Ghrer has been held for nearly five months. A campaign, launched […]
Update 12/21: Some of the comments from donors below this post are worth reading. Also, I’ve added UNICEF to the list of organizations at a reader’s recommendation. Happy holidays, and thank you for giving to Syrians in need. Recently, a friend from Latin America expressed her difficulty in following along with what’s happening in Syria, and […]
On the way home from Nairobi, on the last leg of my flight–from Newark to San Francisco–I was seated next to a young, excited, but mature young woman who had just returned from a month of traveling in Europe with her father, who was seated on the other side of her but slept the whole […]