Author: Samer Bouidani and Luna Safwan
Samer is a freelance photographer working in Eastern Ghouta since 2014 with the Nurphoto agency. He also works on reporting detainees issues. Luna Safwan is a Lebanese journalist based in Beirut, currently working as a News Assistant with the Daily Telegraph, and as an Editor for Raseef22. She has been covering Syria since 2012

Syrian opposition fighter. Eastern Ghouta, November 2017.

Life Under Siege: How People Struggle to Survive in Eastern Ghouta

By Samer Bouidani and Luna Safwan
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EASTERN GHOUTA/BEIRUT – Abu Kamal’s farm in the Eastern Ghouta suburbs of Damascus used to house rows of tomatoes, potatoes and cucumbers. But now the 50-year-old farmer tends exclusively to rows of sacks, hung from his ceiling, where he grows mushrooms. (More…)