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The civil war in Syria: A case study in propaganda

January 28, 2017
| The story we are told about the civil war in Syria is that it's a fight for freedom and democracy against a brutal dictator. Journalist Rick Sterling says this narrative is based on lies and fraud.
Length: 17:27 minutes (15.98 MB)
Aleppo photographer brings Syria's suffering to the United Nations
By
Eva Bartlett
| January 23, 2015

Twenty-six distinct photos in black and white. Scenes of a ravaged city and the human beings within struggling to exist, let alone to find hope for the future. Gravestones of rubble. Homes looted, trashed. Civilians defending their country. Children aged beyond their years by the horrors they've lived.

Hagop Vanesian, a 44-year-old Syrian-Armenian photographer from Syria's largest city, Aleppo (Halab), was meticulous in his choice of photographs for the exhibition, "My Homeland," which opened at the United Nations Headquarters on January 8 and closed January 16.

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'We left because of the violence': Inside a Syrian refugee camp
By
Eva Bartlett
| April 9, 2014

In Zahle, a region in the Bekaa Valley, eastern Lebanon, the day before crossing into Syria, we visit one of the many areas where refugee tent-homes have sprung up over the past few years. Many of the displaced Syrians in the Fayda camp are from Aleppo, Homs, Idlib, Raqqa...

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Movie screening: Aleppo. Notes From the Dark

Saturday, June 14, 2014 - 2:00pm - 5:00pm

Location

Palmerston Theatre (Palmerston public library)
560 Palmerston Avenue
Toronto, ON
Canada
43° 39' 54.5868" N, 79° 24' 50.2128" W
See map: Google Maps

A movie screening event featuring Polish filmmaker Michal Przedlacki's "Aleppo.Notes from the dark," a powerful and heartbreaking documentary about the dramatical changes in the lives of ordinary Aleppo citizens facing extremely horrifying situations.

Online Tickets: http://aleppo-movie.eventbrite.ca/
Movie Trailer: http://vimeo.com/88060806

Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/638133716269158/?ref=br_tf

Tags:
Toronto human rights syrian conflict aleppo
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