Thursday, 8 March 2018

International Women's Day: Stories of love amid Eastern Ghouta's bombs

Friends sitting round a Christmas tree, two long-distance lovers talking on the phone, a man fixing the internet connection for his partner.

At first glance, some of Dima Nachawi's illustrations could show couples from almost anywhere in the world - but the rest of the collection tells a very different story; of air strikes, injuries and death.

These pictures illustrate how real people live - and love - in Eastern Ghouta, an area of Syria where conditions have been described as "hell on earth" by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres.

"They [the residents] still live their daily lives, they still fall in love and try to protect their beloved ones," says Dima.

Dima grew up in Syria, but left the country a number of years ago and now lives in Beirut, where she has a career as an artist.


Source : bbc

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