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Refugee who fled Syria for UK says he?s ?honoured? to join army of cleaners disinfecting coronavirus wards
Syrian born Hassan fled to England in 2015 ... Hassan was born in Damascus in 1990, becoming a secondary school English teacher when he was just 19. He took part in the first anti-government protests ...
Publ.Date : Tue, 07 Apr 2020 11:06:00 GMT

Despite school closures, children in Syria find ways to continue learning
Deir Ez Zor and Ar-Raqqa cities - Three weeks ago, school was suspended for almost 3.8 million children across Syria as a precautionary measure against the spread of ... Learning Programme books she ...
Publ.Date : Tue, 07 Apr 2020 05:45:00 GMT

?I?m not scared of the virus?: He survived war in Syria. Now this refugee worries about keeping up with English lessons
Rami Abd survived a war in Syria and seven years of living in refuge in Turkey. Now, with the world under siege as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Toronto man says what he fears most is not the ...
Publ.Date : Thu, 26 Mar 2020 03:29:00 GMT

In Syria Camp, Young Teachers Challenge Coronavirus
After bombs forced him and his students from their homes, Ahmed Hadaja began teaching in a tent in northwest Syria. And now that the threat of coronavirus has shut even his tented school, he has found ...
Publ.Date : Wed, 01 Apr 2020 05:15:00 GMT

Community spotlight: A brighter future
The easygoing telecommunications graduate had worked two jobs back in Damascus: teaching English and working at a bank. While the work in Luxembourg gave him more financial security, he said he ...
Publ.Date : Sun, 29 Mar 2020 00:05:00 GMT

Portrait of a Hopeful Olympian: Young Syrian Escapes War to Pursue Dream in Japan
His loving parents were passionate about his education, teaching him the importance of living earnestly and studying hard. Foreign language study is deeply engrained in Syria, where he was required to ...
Publ.Date : Thu, 02 Apr 2020 19:12:00 GMT

Hyderabad: EFLU strictly abiding by government regulations
The English and Foreign Languages University (EFLU), Hyderabad, has been under lockdown since 22 March 2020 following Prime Minister Narendra Modi's announcement that the ...
Publ.Date : Fri, 27 Mar 2020 09:55:00 GMT

Feast of Ashes
During the Armenian Genocide, he narrowly escaped a death sentence and, with his wife and young children, survived deportation to Syria. In 1919, he founded a new workshop in Jerusalem ... in tow?all ...
Publ.Date : Thu, 26 Mar 2020 10:19:00 GMT

Syrian Refugees Face Obstacles as Coronavirus Threat Looms
CAIRO - The lives of Syrian refugees across the Middle East have become increasingly difficult as ... and that health workers were doing their best to teach them how to sterilize their hands and faces ...
Publ.Date : Sat, 28 Mar 2020 14:20:00 GMT

Poor language teaching stops Syrian refugees integrating, new report shows
Syrian refugees in the Netherlands are finding it hard to integrate because of both red tape and poor language teaching, according to a new report ... The report has an English summary of the findings ...
Publ.Date : Thu, 12 Mar 2020 02:16:00 GMT

Former Syrian refugee uses tailoring skills to stitch together new life in N.S.
With his tailoring business doing well, the former Syrian refugee decided to open ... he?d teach me a little bit of Kurdish and I would teach him English and, you know, we managed to get by ...
Publ.Date : Tue, 10 Mar 2020 12:08:00 GMT

Syrian troops press ahead with campaign as strikes kill 16
ANKARA, Turkey ? (AP) ? Airstrikes on rebel-controlled northwest Syria killed at least 16 people Tuesday, including two students and two teachers, opposition activists said, as government ...
Publ.Date : Tue, 25 Feb 2020 11:00:00 GMT