https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/contributor/omar-duwaji/rss en Civil Society Diplomacy & Foreign Affairs Tue, 07 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Omar Duwaji https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/articles/2013/05/07/a-grandmothers-return-to-damascus https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/articles/2013/05/07/a-grandmothers-return-to-damascus As of last week, Nadia, a 66-year-old grandmother, was living comfortably in the U.S. at the home of her daughter in an upscale Washington, D.C. suburb. Today, she finds herself back in a leafy district of Damascus wondering when Syria’s civil war will come to an end.