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Alexandra Pringle

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Silk Road Slippers; Trustee of Reprieve; Patron Index-on-Censorship; Advisory Board, Bradford Literature Festival. Lives on a houseboat.

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Joined May 2011
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Moving piece by @DanielHiltonCFC Massacres and resilience in Hama, Syria's insubordinate city middleeasteye.net/news/massa…
Massacres and resilience in Hama, Syria's insubordinate city

Massacres and resilience in Hama, Syria's insubordinate city

Forty-three years after the Assad government killed 40,000 people and levelled entire neighbourhoods, Hamawis reflect on their revolutionary history

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@MiddleEastEye2 Feb 2025
Surveillance footage reportedly shows an Israeli armoured vehicle deliberately crashing into vegetable stands owned by Palestinians during a raid this morning in Tulkarm, in the occupied West Bank. At least 50 Palestinians have been killed in the northern occupied West Bank since the Israeli army launched a major offensive in the area two weeks ago, according to the military.
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I cannot stress enough how the situation in the West Bank is intensifying. 22 Palestinians killed in a single week. At least 5 Palestinians killed in two different airstrikes in Jenin in the last hours. We are witnessing unprecedented violence from the Israeli military while settlers expand illegal settlements across the West Bank.
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Trying to write a novel? A Marrakech ‘book camp’ might unlock your literary skills

Trying to write a novel? A Marrakech ‘book camp’ might unlock your literary skills

Alexandra Pringle and Alex von Tunzelmann are putting writers through their paces, one draft at a time

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Daniel Hilton@DanielHiltonCFC27 Dec 2024
Things have grown tense in Syria’s Alawi communities. Fake or misleading videos of abuses have only fanned the flames. Alawis told me they want direct reassurance from Ahmed al-Sharaa middleeasteye.net/news/syria…
Disinformation stokes Alawi unease as Assad loyalists pursued in Syria

Disinformation stokes Alawi unease as Assad loyalists pursued in Syria

Several social media accounts sympathetic to the ousted president are pumping out disinformation aimed at stoking sectarian fear

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Daniel Hilton@DanielHiltonCFC27 Dec 2024
Some journalists in Damascus’ Old City showing it is important to speak to all parts of Syrian society
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@MiddleEastEye25 Dec 2024
“No more Indonesian Hospital.” An Israeli soldier has shared a video celebrating the mass destruction around the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza
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Unspeakable suffering in a beautiful landscape: heartbreaking story of the siege of Madaya by @DanielHiltonCFC @MiddleEastEye Inside Madaya, the Syrian town Assad starved to death middleeasteye.net/news/insid…
Inside Madaya, the Syrian town Assad starved to death

Inside Madaya, the Syrian town Assad starved to death

Dozens died of hunger during a 21-month siege imposed on Madaya by the Syrian army in 2015

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Daniel Hilton@DanielHiltonCFC20 Dec 2024
The Syrians of Tadamon spent years watching intelligence officials and paramilitaries slaughter scores of innocent people. Children are coming across bones and bodies all the time. My piece from yesterday middleeasteye.net/news/syria…
Syrians live among bones after years of Tadamon killings

Syrians live among bones after years of Tadamon killings

Residents in the Damascus suburb have grown accustomed to walking past a spine one day, a pelvic bone the next

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Daniel Hilton@DanielHiltonCFC20 Dec 2024
I spoke to Sheikh Hikmat al-Hijri, the most senior Druze figure in Syria. He said talks with the new authorities had been very positive but he needed to see more I also learnt that Druze fighters were coordinating with rebels in Daraa for over a year  middleeasteye.net/news/top-s…
Top Syrian Druze leader condemns Israeli invasion

Top Syrian Druze leader condemns Israeli invasion 

Sheikh Hikmat al-Hijri says contact between his community and new authorities in Damascus has been positive so far, 'but we are waiting for accomplishments'

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Daniel Hilton@DanielHiltonCFC21 Dec 2024
Madaya was under siege for 21 months. People ate cats and dogs, tree leaves, bones and even soiled nappies Now Assad has gone its residents can finally tell their stories of survival middleeasteye.net/news/insid…
Inside Madaya, the Syrian town Assad starved to death

Inside Madaya, the Syrian town Assad starved to death

Dozens died of hunger during a 21-month siege imposed on Madaya by the Syrian army in 2015

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Destruction in a Palestinian refugee camp in Syria, by @DanielHiltonCFC In shattered Yarmouk, the Palestinians of Syria mourn their 'paradise' lost to war middleeasteye.net/news/shatt…
In shattered Yarmouk, the Palestinians of Syria mourn their 'paradise' lost to war

In shattered Yarmouk, the Palestinians of Syria mourn their 'paradise' lost to war

The Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus was once a desirable neighbourhood. Now it is all but totally destroyed

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Daniel Hilton@DanielHiltonCFC12 Dec 2024
I had a good look around Assad’s various villas and palaces in Damascus. My guides? The Damascenes and rebels that broke into them on Saturday night middleeasteye.net/news/syria…
A tour of Assad’s homes with the Syrians who stormed them

A tour of Assad’s homes with the Syrians who stormed them

Middle East Eye visits the palaces of the Assad family - and the Russian diplomatic mansion next door

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Daniel Hilton@DanielHiltonCFC13 Dec 2024
Vibes in Umayyad Square
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Daniel Hilton@DanielHiltonCFC15 Dec 2024
Around 31,000 prisoners were freed as the Syrian government fell. That leaves an estimated 100,000 people unaccounted for. The grim truth is they most likely died under torture, @FADELABDULGHANY tells me middleeasteye.net/news/syria…
Syrians face grim prospect of never finding missing relatives

Syrians face grim prospect of never finding missing relatives

The fate of tens of thousands of disappeared people remains illusive even after the liberation of Assad prisons 

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Daniel Hilton@DanielHiltonCFC15 Dec 2024
Yesterday I went to Qatana, the closest Syrian town to invading Israeli troops, to see how people were getting on. Everyone was pretty chill about it to be honest middleeasteye.net/news/syria…
Syrian commander on Israeli frontline says invasion will go no further

Syrian commander on Israeli frontline says invasion will go no further

Rebel commander in Qatana, a Syrian town just 8km from Israeli troops, says 'we refuse to let anyone enter Syria'

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Daniel Hilton@DanielHiltonCFC16 Dec 2024
When the Syrian army tortured 13-year-old Hamza al-Khatib to death in 2011, he became synonymous with the government’s brutality. His death also put a target on his family’s back. My piece from Daraa middleeasteye.net/news/hamza…
Hamza al-Khatib was a symbol of Syria’s revolution. His family paid the price

Hamza al-Khatib was a symbol of Syria’s revolution. His family paid the price

After Assad's fall, family of 13-year-old killed at beginning of revolution learn fate of other imprisoned members

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Daniel Hilton@DanielHiltonCFC16 Dec 2024
Stole half an hour while I was in Daraa yesterday to see the Roman theatre at Bosra, because wtf else are two classics degrees good for
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Daniel Hilton@DanielHiltonCFC17 Dec 2024
Me and Omar al-Aswad spoke to conscripts and officers who witnessed the Syrian army dissolve before their eyes. No amount of threats could convince them to fight for Assad as everyone panicked around them middleeasteye.net/news/syria…
The Syrian army’s collapse as told by the soldiers who fled

The Syrian army’s collapse as told by the soldiers who fled

One stripped off his uniform and went home half-naked, while others dodged checkpoints or made up excuses to avoid fighting as the Assad regime crumbled

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Extraordinary times described by @DanielHiltonCFC Crowds flock to Umayyad Mosque for Syria's first Friday prayers after Assad middleeasteye.net/news/syria…
Crowds flock to Umayyad Mosque for Syria's first Friday prayers after Assad

Crowds flock to Umayyad Mosque for Syria's first Friday prayers after Assad

'May we have better days', interim Prime Minister Mohammed al-Bashir tells worshippers as thousands join celebrations in Damascus

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