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Lebanon’s crisis pushes mental health services to the limit

October 8, 2021October 10, 2021 / Maya Gebeily / Leave a comment

BEIRUT, Oct 8 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Lebanese psychologist Bernard Sousse started offering online therapy sessions when patients said surging fuel prices meant they could no longer drive in to see him – but then the power cuts began.

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As Iran faces ‘water bankruptcy’, drought exposes past problems, future threats

July 28, 2021August 1, 2021 / Maya Gebeily / Leave a comment

[Published here July 28, 2021]

BEIRUT, July 28 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Severe water shortages in Iran in recent weeks have prompted electricity outages and even sparked deadly protests, but analysts say the underlying causes go back decades – and will rattle the country for much longer than this summer’s drought.

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In IS-held Raqa, parched civilians risk lives for water | AFP

July 8, 2017 / Maya Gebeily / Leave a comment

[Published here July 8, 2017]

Beirut (AFP) – Syria’s Raqa once thrived on the banks of the gushing Euphrates River, but dire shortages in the Islamic State group stronghold are forcing desperate civilians to risk their lives for water.

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Dubai, being Dubai.
“Let the dead go first, then maybe one day the living can go.” Syrians sending the bodies of their loved ones across the border to their waiting relatives. Turkish authorities have allowed only the dead - not the living - to cross into Syria to be buried. Story in bio.
An Arabic workbook belonging to a Syrian child who was still trapped under the rubble. Attempted rescue operations just moments before a new body was pulled out. A Syrian man examines the body of his brother’s grandchild. Salah Al-Naasan, who lost his daughter-in-law and three grandchildren - including the one seen in the previous photo, the one pulled out of the rubble in the earlier video, and the unborn child of his pregnant, lifeless daughter-in-law. He is crying out to see if the unborn child can somehow be saved. On both sides of the border, Syrians suffer.
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