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An al-Ruqyah al-Shar’iyyah session performed on a young man suffering from headaches. (Photo: Hazza Adnan al-Hazza)

Exorcising Demons in Idlib

Casting spells seen as an effective treatment for epilepsy.

Maan and other volunteers collecting letters on al-Mutanabi street in central Baghdad on November 25. © IWPR

Four Million Love Letters to Mosul

Unprecedented initiative sends messages of support from Iraqi citizens to the beleaguered residents of the country’s second-largest city.

A meeting about the progress of Kfar Nabel’s census project. (Photo: Mostafa al-Jalal)

A New Census for Kfar Nabel

Enterprise will help meet the needs of a changing population.

Students attend a computer training course. (Photo: Maha al-Ahmad)

Syria: Developing Computer Skills Takes Top Priority

New courses offer crucial ways of communicating with the outside world.

Students inside a teaching institute classroom. (Photo: Darin Hassan)

Training a New Generation of Teachers

Children in Idlib are getting a fresh chance to complete their education.

Zaina Erhaim. (Photo courtesy of Z. Erhaim)

Press Release

Are Critics of the Syrian Regime Safe in the UK?

A wheat field and olive grove in Kfar Nabel. (Photo: Hadia Mansour)

Agriculture Declines in Syria's Once Green Governorate

Farming has been devastated by the ongoing conflict.

The Flames of the Revolution

The story of one woman's political awakening.

A woman in Aleppo’s Seif al-Dawla neighbourhood. (Photo: Hussam Kuwaifatiyeh)

Syria: Saving My Memories

Despite the danger, it was impossible to leave everything behind.

Global Voices: Middle East & North Africa

The sister of Aurelio Cruz López holds a sign used in the search for the young man, who disappeared along the U.S.-Mexico border. © Andrea Godínez

Araceli cries while talking about her brother who disappeared along the border and whose remains were repatriated. © Andrea Godínez

Cecilia Delgado Grijalva is a buscadora (name adopted by mothers and relatives of missing persons who are devoted to finding the remains of their loves ones) and founder of Buscadoras por la Paz (Searchers for Peace), in Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico. © Andrea Godínez

A search for family members gone missing in Sonora, Mexico. © Andrea Godínez

The portion of Evergreen Cemetery in Tucson, Arizona where deceased migrants whose remains are not claimed by their families are buried. © © Andrea Godínez

Gene Hernández, forensic examiner at the Pima County morgue, inside the trailer that holds the remains of migrants who perished along the border. © Andrea Godínez

Gene Hernández, a forensic medical investigator in Pima County, holds the skull of a deceased migrant. © Andrea Godínez

Román Coc holds photos of his daughter Laura, who disappeared in the Arizona desert 13 years ago. © Andrea Godínez

A photograph shows Laura Coc (far right), a young woman from Guatemala, posing during a beauty pageant. © Andrea Godínez

There are no statistics on cases of femicide - the killing of women on the grounds of hatred of women, with the acquiescence of the state - in Uzbekistan.

Artwork by Mays Al-Saray.

'Hope of Mother', an organization led by Lisbeth Surita, has registered 48 cases of Venezuelans missing in the border regions.

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