Author: Albert Kadir

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Razan Zeitouneh (photo: AFP Archive)

Human Rights Activist Razan Zeitouneh Kidnapped

Syria's Fearless Dissident

For some two decades, the lawyer, recipient of the Sakharov Prize, and head of the Centre for Documentation of Violations in Syria has tirelessly fought against the Assad dictatorship. Together with three other activists, she has recently been kidnapped in Syria. Details by Albert KadirMore

Russia, the US and the Syrian Civil War: A Bloody Game of ChessThe German NGO "Adopt a Revolution": Planning for a Postwar SyriaInterview with Sadiqu Al-Mousllie "The Murderous Assad Regime Must Be Stopped"
Demonstrators burn a poster of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad outside the Syrian Embassy in Nicosia (photo: dapd)

The Syrian Uprising

A People on the Brink

Media campaigns, machinations, a divided opposition, mistrust and a battle of egos. The Syrian regime is pitting citizen against citizen, and the danger of civil war is becoming increasingly acute. Albert Kadir reports from DamascusMore

After the Veto of the UN Resolution: Syria on the Brink of Civil WarSyria's Minorities and the Uprising against the Regime: In Assad's FortressThe Opposition in Syria: A Multitude of UprisingsThe Syrian Uprising: A People on the Brink

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The last "German Khar": Ghulam Mohiuddin is in his late 70s, but he still works every day in his small workshop in Srinagar's Rainawari district, producing and repairing small hospital tools made of iron. Through years of practice, he can make replicas of many small tools used in hospitals

Meet the last of Kashmir's 'German Khar' craftsmen

The ''German Khars'' are a family of craftsmen known in Srinagar for their skills repairing old German-made medical equipment. Their craft has been preserved for decades, but today only one blacksmith continues the work. By Rifat Fareed