Real stories and honest insights on water, and the quiet ways it flows through me.
The Tigris–Euphrates isn’t just a river system; it’s a pressure map. Climate stress squeezes from above, politics pulls from the sides, and everyday life (drinking water, crops, and electricity) gets caught in the vise. This piece distills a multiscale assessment we prepared for Première Urgence Internationale (PUI)
The question lands like a small alarm with a smile: Who are you? Or where are you from? I’ve learned how quickly the answer can flip a room. There’s always a beat before I say it. A soft, private breath. Then I offer the word that has framed
They say home is where the heart is. I’ve been trying to catch mine in the act, to see where it keeps slipping off to when I’m not looking. Some days it’s in a kitchen I no longer rent, humming above a gas stove that ticked like
Syria’s most decisive reconstruction battle won’t be fought on city streets, it will be won or lost at the kitchen sink. After a decade of conflict, earthquake damage and worsening droughts, the question is no longer whether to reform water governance, but how. Two big ideas dominate the
Syria’s water debate has reached a historic fork. One path calls for an independent national authority that finally untangles the clashing mandates of several ministries and scores of local councils involved in managing water. The other champions a Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystems (WEFE) nexus approach that forces every sector to put its
