https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/contributor/stephen-kalin/rss en Government & Pro-Government Forces Human Rights Opposition Groups & Rebel Forces Tue, 26 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Stephen Kalin https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/articles/2013/02/26/in-egypt-damascus-on-the-nile https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/articles/2013/02/26/in-egypt-damascus-on-the-nile CAIRO – Last year, Omar Haidar arrived in Egypt. As bombs rattled entire neighborhoods, the 26-year old hotel manager fled his family’s village in the hard-hit suburbs of Damascus.