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November 04, 2011 | Marketplace
Syria: Business Divided on Assad
After seven months of upheaval, Syria's top businesses remain loyal to the government, but small business owners are split.
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October 28, 2011 | The Christian Science Monitor
Amid Syria Protests, Businessmen Remain Loyal to President Assad
Many Syrian business elites have close ties to the ruling Baath Party. But if their support wavers, it could mean the end of President Bashar al-Assad's regime.
October 27, 2011 | The Atlantic
In Syria, Kurds Split Over Support for Assad Regime
Among Syria's Kurdish minority, there is no love lost for the Assad regime, but many fear what might come after him.
October 25, 2011 | ABC Radio National (Australia)
Inside Syria
Journalist and author Reese Erlich talks about Libyan dictator Moamar Gaddafi's death and whether the Assad regime in Syria might be the next to fall.
October 21, 2011 | Pulitzer Center
Syrian Kurds Have Long Memories
To escape a government crackdown in 2004, thousands of Syrian Kurds fled across the border to Iraq. Many still live there today—a constant reminder of Syrian repression.
October 17, 2011 | Pulitzer Center
Syria: Daring the Authorities in Dara
After harsh crackdowns on demonstrators across the country, the Syrian regime claims it has regained control of the situation. But public displays of opposition are still evident, even in the schoolyard.
October 06, 2010 | AIGA
Daniel Brook Wins Winterhouse Design Writing & Criticism Award
Daniel Brook wins the prestigious Writing Award in the Winterhouse Awards for Design Writing & Criticism for his Pulitzer Center reporting on "The Architect of 9/11".
November 09, 2009 | WBUR
The Architect of 9/11
Daniel Brook's Pulitzer Center project on Mohamed Atta, "The Architect of 9/11," was featured in a segment on WBUR's "Here and Now" on Nov. 9.
September 10, 2009 | Slate
The Architect of 9/11
The photographs above correspond to Brook's three pieces published by Slate. The items labeled "Dispatch 1" are associated to his 9/08 piece, "Dispatch 2" to 9/09, and "Dispatch 3" to 9/10.
September 10, 2009 | Slate
In Aleppo, Syria, Mohamed Atta Thought He Could Build the Ideal Islamic City
In 1994, Mohamed Atta traveled to Istanbul with a student group and continued onward to visit Dittmar Machule in northern Syria, where the professor was doing fieldwork on a Bronze Age village under excavation. But Atta found himself more interested in the traditional urbanism of the nearest major city, Aleppo. Atta was hardly the first student of Middle Eastern architecture drawn to Aleppo. Along with Fez in Morocco and Sana'a in Yemen, Aleppo is considered among the best-preserved cities in the Arab world.
December 30, 2008 | The Baltimore Sun
A Few Are Willing to Risk the Return to Baghdad
JARAMANA, Syria -- Hasem Abed is thinking about going back to Iraq.
The small-time auto trader, 32, left Diyala earlier this year after members of a Shia militia destroyed his house.
He says this town outside Damascus has been more secure, but he has run out of money and has been unable to find work. He is thinking of trying his luck in Baghdad.
Hassam Abdul Rahman might join him. Life in Iraq, the 42-year-old mechanical engineer says, "is very bad." But he, too, has exhausted his savings in Syria.
December 29, 2008 | The Baltimore Sun
'You Cannot Turn Your Back'
WASHINGTON -- After a stranger snapped her photograph as she entered the Green Zone, Tina Raad's family begged her to get out of Iraq.
At first, she resisted. The Iraqi woman had sought work with the U.S. Agency for International Development in Baghdad because she wanted to join in the reconstruction of her country.
But in the eyes of Iraqi insurgents, such collaboration made her a traitor. Changing her dress, varying the route she took to work and altering her hours had not stopped their threats. When her mother and three siblings fled Iraq, she relented.