Syria Documentary: A
Young Girl's Heart-Wrenching
Story of Her
Time in a
Syrian Prison
This incredible documentary shows the terrifying ordeal that a young girl named
Amal suffered as a Syrian prisoner, despite protesting her innocence from the first day. The heart-wrenching tale of torture and maltreatment shows just how bad life inside Syrian can be, especially as a woman.
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Syria, officially the
Syrian Arab Republic, is a country in
Western Asia, bordering
Lebanon and the
Mediterranean Sea to the west,
Turkey to the north,
Iraq to the east,
Jordan to the south, and
Israel to the southwest. Its capital
Damascus is among the oldest continuously-inhabited cities in the world. A country of fertile plains, high mountains, and deserts, it is home to diverse ethnic and religious groups, including the
Arab,
Greeks,
Armenians,
Assyrians,
Kurds,
Circassians,
Mhallami,
Mandeans and
Turks.
Religious groups include
Sunni, Christians, Alawite, Druze religion, Mandeanism and Yezidi.
Sunni Arabs make up the largest population group in Syria.
In
English, the name "Syria" was formerly synonymous with the Levant (known in
Arabic as al-Sham) while the modern state encompasses the sites of several ancient kingdoms and empires, including the
Eblan civilization of the
3rd millennium BC. In the Islamic era, Damascus was the seat of the
Umayyad Caliphate and a provincial capital of the
Mamluk Sultanate in
Egypt.
The modern Syrian state was established after
World War I as a
French mandate, and represented the largest
Arab state to emerge from the formerly Ottoman-ruled Arab Levant. It gained independence in
April 1946, as a parliamentary republic. The post-independence period was tumultuous, and a large number of military coups and coup attempts shook the country in the period 1949–
1971. Between 1958-61, Syria entered a brief union with Egypt, which was terminated by a military coup.
The Arab Republic of Syria came into being in
1963, transforming from the Republic of Syria in the Ba'athist coup d'état. Syria was under
Emergency Law from 1963 to
2011, effectively suspending most constitutional protections for citizens, and its system of government is considered to be non-democratic.
Bashar al-Assad has been president since
2000 and was preceded by his father
Hafez al-Assad, who was in office from
1970 to 2000.
For more on Syria:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syria
For news on the war in Syria:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/
and:
http://www.reuters.com/places/syria
For
Syrian food:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_cuisine
For Syrian travel advice:
https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/syria
For more on history:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
History
For more on documentaries:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Documentary_film
For up to date world news:
http://www.cnn.com
or:
http://www
.bbc.co.uk/news
or:
http://www.lemonde.fr
finally:
http://news.sky.com/world
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- published: 02 Jan 2015
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