As bombs fell around her, Syrian architect Marwa al-Sabouni stayed in Homs throughout the civil war, making plans to build hope from carnage. Her ideas are now laid out in a visionary memoir. But will anyone listen? [Read more].
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“A beautiful soul”: Marwa al-Sabouni in Homs, Syria, last week in a photograph taken by her husband, Ghassan Jansiz.
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Palmyra, Syria: Beheaded statues found in the destroyed museum after the recapture of the ancient city last week. Photo: Joseph Eid/AFP/Getty Images.
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Lesbos, Greece: A girl waits with refugees and migrants on the Greek island after crossing the Aegean Sea from Turkey. Photo: Bulent Kilic/AFP/Getty Images.
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A newly married couple pose at home with their family in Kobani, Syria. Photo: Yasin Akgul/AFP/Getty Images.
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Horgoš, Serbia: Syrians walk along a railway line as they try to cross from Serbia into Hungary. Photo: Aris Messinis/AFP/Getty Images.
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A Syrian couple waits for the train in Gevgelija with other refugees and migrants to continue their way to Europe. Photo: Aris Messinis/AFP.
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A child injured in one of the air raids which continue on the Damascus suburb of Douma, Syria. Photo: AFP/Abd Doumany.
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A migrant child gets assistance to remove her life jacket after arriving in Kos, Greece, on August 13, 2015. Photo: AFP/Angelos Tzortzinis.
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Syrian refugee Zubaida Faisal, 10-year-old, skips while she and other children play in an informal settlement on the outskirts of Mafraq, Jordan, near the Syrian border. Photo: Muhammed Muheisen/AP.
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A Syrian refugee carries her baby towards the ferry Elefthérios Venizélos in Kos, Greece, which functions as a registration centre and accommodation for migrants and refugees. Photo: Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP.
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A pregnant Syrian woman sleeps as she travels on a train heading north from Gevgelija to Tabanovce in Macedonia, at the border with Serbia. Migrants are attempting to cross Macedonia and Serbia and enter the European Union via Hungary, a country that will finish building an anti-migrant fence on its southern border by the end of August, ahead of the previous November target. Photo: Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP/Getty Images.
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A Syrian girl sleeps on a train heading north from Nis to Belgrade. Thousands of migrants cross Serbia on their way to other European countries as it has land access to four members of the 28-nation EU: Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania and Croatia. Photo: Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP/Getty Images.
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Fino a una settimana fa si spostavano in bicicletta o a piedi, perché la legge macedone vietava loro l’uso dei trasporti pubblici. Ora è la volta dei treni, ed è legale, purché sgomberino in tre giorni. È l’altra via dei migranti che provengono da Siria, Afghanistan e Africa per raggiungere l’Europa occidentale: attraverso la Macedonia verso la Serbia e poi oltre, anche in Ungheria nonostante l’annuncio del muro. Ma ora la Macedonia ha cambiato le regole e pur di liberarsene, li ha fatti entrare e caricati sui treni, a patto che tutto finisca in tre giorni. (AP).
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