The Toronto-based Syrian cartoonist Mwafaq Katt spoke to NCM’s Arzu Yildiz about his experience as an artist, why in Syria his drawings were considered a crime, and why he decided to come to Canada.
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NCM reporter Hakam Kherallah is in Turkey, home to the world’s largest Syrian refugee community, to examine the attitudes of the diaspora to the Syrian presidential elections.
View More Syrian Elections: Farce or Another Rebranding Attempt?
March 15, 2021 will mark 10 years since the start of the civil war in Syria, but as the West’s priorities appear to lie elsewhere, there is little hope for the Syrians’ suffering to end any time soon, writes Hakam Kherallah.
View More 10 Years into Syrian Civil War: No End in Sight
A career in journalism can mean risking your safety in many parts of the world. Refugee journalists based in Toronto share their stories of fleeing the dangerous situations at home in the documentary The Cost of Freedom
View More The Cost of Freedom – Refugee Journalists in Canada
In a region that still believes in the “Greater Syria”, where “Southern Syria” included Jerusalem and the Palestinian territories, the name “Al Quds Force” had given Suleimani elusive legitimacy.
View More What Qassim Suleimani’s killing means to Syrians in Canada
Canada remains one of the most desired destinations for the Syrian diaspora, partly based on the good reports from those who have resettled since 2015
View More No Beeline for al-Assad’s ‘Lap of the Homeland’
After six years, with the help of relatives and friends, she and two siblings blended into the darkness and crossed the city’s fortified border
View More Having Lived as Vietnamese Refugees, Pair Steps up as Private Sponsors for Syrians
The 26th edition of the documentary festival Hot Docs, running in Toronto from 25 April – 6 May, brings together stories regarding the immigration crises in both Europe and in America. “Refugees are seen for…
View More Hot Docs Festival Highlights the Global Crisis of Immigration
White Helmets, known officially as the Syria Civil Defense, is a formal emergency response team of civilian volunteers and an apolitical organization
View More White Helmets in VancouverIf there is one searing image of the fall of Communism in Eastern Europe it is that of the orphanages of Romania. The regime of President Nicolae Ceausescu outlawed both contraception and abortion. As a…
View More Suffer the Children of Islamic State