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Jana Salem

A participant in Al-Jumhuriya Fellowship for Young Writers.

Damascus’ shelters for Ghouta’s displaced: A new kind of prison

Jana Salem 8 April 2018

[Editor’s note: This article is the third in a series of four originally published in Arabic by Al-Jumhuriya during the siege and bombardment

Nightmares of “reconstruction” in and around Damascus: Part II

Jana Salem 10 November 2017

Displaced Damascenes fear “reconstruction” is a fig leaf for the permanent transformation of their former home neighborhoods—and their exclusion therefrom.

Nightmares of “reconstruction” in and around Damascus: Part I

Jana Salem 2 November 2017

[Editor’s note: The following is the first in a two-part report from Damascus and its surrounding province, originally published in Arabic on 3

Hameesh Checkpoint: Business in the Time of Truce

Jana Salem 14 December 2016

Marwa and Zahra climb onto the minibus, which is supposed to take them from Hameesh bus stop to Al-Salam Mosque within Barzeh district,

A Cake Under Shelling

Jana Salem 5 October 2016

It’s 4 pm on a mid-June day in 2013. Al-Qaboun neighbourhood is virtually empty; everyone stayed home after hours of violent shelling, which usually