Civil Society Flourishes in Qamishli
May 10, 2013, 12:51 pm
Youssef Shaikho Every day, the activists from an organization called Shawishka meet in a small apartment in one of the neighbourhoods of Qamishli, a majority Kurdish city in Syria’s Hassaka Governorate, to come up with new projects to empower women. (more…)
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Civil Society Flourishes in Qamishli
Youssef Shaikho
Every day, the activists from an organization called Shawishka meet in a
small apartment in one of the neighbourhoods of Qamishli, a majority
Kurdish city in Syria’s Hassaka Governorate, to come up with new
projects to empower women. (more…)
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