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  2. Internet censorship in Syria - Wikipedia

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    Syria had been on Reporters Without Borders' Enemy of the Internet list since 2006 when the list was established. [11] In 2009, the committee to Protect Journalists named Syria number three in a list of the ten worst countries in which to be a blogger, given the arrests, harassment, and restrictions which online writers in Syria faced. [12]

  3. DeviantArt - Wikipedia

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    As of March 1, 2017, Syria was banned from accessing DeviantArt's services entirely, citing US and Israeli sanctions and aftermath on February 19, 2018. After Syrian user Mythiril used a VPN to access the site and disclosed the geoblocking in a journal, titled "The hypocrisy of deviantArt," DeviantArt ended the geoblocking except for commercial ...

  4. Second Arab Spring - Wikipedia

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    Tesbih Habbal and Muzna Hasnawi, Syrian editors writing in The Nation in October 2019, argued that the 2018–2019 sustained street protests in the Arab world starting with Sudan in December 2018, Algeria in February 2019, Egypt and Iraq in September and October 2019, Syria and Lebanon in October 2019, constituted a second wave of the process ...

  5. Territory of the Islamic State - Wikipedia

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    [22] [23] [21] The Syrian military conducted combing operations and airstrikes against the pocket, but with limited success. [24] [25] IS propaganda claims a peak territorial extent of 282,485 km 2. [26] The majority of the Islamic State's territory, population, revenue, and prestige came from the territory it once held in Iraq and Syria. [14]

  6. List of Syrian artists - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of Syrian artists, artists from Syria, or of Syrian descent. A. Youssef Abdelke (born 1951), drawer, printmaker; Aula Al Ayoubi (born 1973), painter ...

  7. Qardaha - Wikipedia

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    Qardaha (Arabic: القَرْدَاحَة / ALA-LC: Qardāḥah) is a town in northwestern Syria, in the mountains overlooking the coastal town of Latakia.Nearby localities include Kilmakho to the west, Bustan al-Basha to the southwest, Harf al-Musaytirah to the southeast and Muzayraa to the north.

  8. For Sama - Wikipedia

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    The film shows Waad al-Kateab's life through five years in Aleppo, Syria before and during The Battle of Aleppo.An economics student at the University of Aleppo when the uprising began in 2011, we watch as she falls in love, gives birth to her first daughter Sama and navigates motherhood all while the conflict begins to engulf the city.

  9. Arab Kingdom of Syria - Wikipedia

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    The Bank of Syria was later renamed the Bank of Syria and Greater Lebanon and continued issuing currency for both Syria and Lebanon until the 1950s. These events in Europe led Syrian nationalist societies like al-Fatat (the Young Arab Society) to make preparations for a national congress. These Syrian nationalist societies advocated complete ...