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Maya Gebeily

Maya Gebeily is a Lebanese-American journalist, covering Syria and Lebanon for Agence France Presse since March 2015. Before her work with AFP, she was a freelancer and a reporter for NOW News. She writes about security, diplomacy, social affairs, refugees, jihadist groups, and other dynamics playing out in Syria, Lebanon, and beyond. Visit Mayabebeily.com.

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Syria’s New Map: War Has Created Ethnic Cantons, Massively Displaced Communities

Syria’s New Map: War Has Created Ethnic Cantons, Massively Displaced Communities

Maya Gebeily

Co-author: Rouba El Husseini | – – Beirut (AFP) – Seven years of war and massive displacement have redrawn Syria’s demographic map, erecting borders between the country’s ethnic, religious, and political communities that will be hard to erase. Displaced Syrians, analysts, and rights defenders have described to AFP a divided country where regime opponents have […]

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