Syria contributor: Amal Hanano

Muse of the Revolution

Amal Hanano — Wed, 04 Sep 2013 00:00:00 +0000

I had two New Year’s resolutions in 2011: to read Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina and Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time. Anna was completed by Jan. 25 – just when our lives turned into a 24-hour TV marathon tuned to Cairo’s Tahrir Square as the world watched a dictator fall in 18 short days.

Seven Minutes and Nineteen Seconds in Aleppo

Amal Hanano — Sat, 24 Aug 2013 00:00:00 +0000

It’s August 16. A man holding a camera runs between tall concrete buildings. A dark gray cloud breaks the blue summer sky of Aleppo. He moves towards the smoke while men run in the opposite direction.

Arts + Culture: Lessons from the Minaret

Amal Hanano — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Amal Hanano is a well-known Syrian writer and blogger, as well as an associate editor of Syria Deeply. Here she explores this week’s destruction of the Umayyad Mosque, the architectural pride of her hometown of Aleppo.

Maher Almounnes + Amal Hanano: Hallucinations of War

Amal Hanano — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0000

The Profile: Yakzan Shishakly, Manager, Atma Refugee Camp

Amal Hanano — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +0000

It was early March 2013, and over 200 Syrian-Americans had gathered in a ballroom at the Four Seasons Hotel in Houston. The gala was a benefit for the Maram Foundation, a nonprofit organization operating out of Reyhanli, Turkey, providing humanitarian aid for Syrians – namely, the thousands of internally displaced people near the Syrian village of Atma.

Syrian Stories: Armed with a Mic and Camera

Amal Hanano — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0000

On April 25, 2011, a man held up a video camera in Deraa. He was not an experienced videographer and he did not have a tripod.He stood in front of a group of Syrian army soldiers with tanks and filmed them shooting their machine guns towards civilian targets. Each time he watched the clip on his laptop, he noticed the footage was shaky due to his trembling hand, so he would go back to his exposed vantage point to film once more.

Through Death, Syrian Stories Emerge

Amal Hanano — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Amal Hanano is the pen name for a Syrian-American writer and political analyst who’s become one of the most prominent online voices of Syria’s civil war. She writes long-form profile pieces for Syria Deeply, while her work also appears in Foreign Policy and The National, among other publications. You can find her on Twitter as @amalhanano. .