terça-feira, 30 de dezembro de 2014

"A Chronicler of Syria’s Conflict Returns to the Spotlight, Minus a Disguise"


MARY ATWAN, a trained nurse, has been a journalist in Syria since 2012, but only when she traveled to Italy this week to receive a prestigious award did the world learn her real name: Maisa Saleh.

It was also a first chance for the world outside a narrow circle in Syria to see a sample of her work, which in addition to meriting this year’s Anna Politkovskaya Award for investigative journalism has earned her an arrest, imprisonment and exile in just a few short years.

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