Ahmed Deeb

Author: AHMED DEEB

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  • France, Paris migrant camp

     

    26 March, 2016. France, Paris. About a thousand of refugees and migrants from Afghanistan, Sudan, Somalia and Eritrea had found shelter under the Paris elevated railroad near the Stalingrad subway station in the north of the city.

    Migrants are living in squalid conditions, surrounded by trash and with no bathrooms. Residents of the camp relied on locals and neighborhood businesses for provisions.

    Conditions are particularly rough for the many children who live in the camp, and have been forced to sleep under wet blankets, on damp mattresses laid down on the ground, without any help from the government except some volunteers bring food, blankets and other needs.

  • Unfinished: Portraits of Kurdish Women fighters

    Unfinished: Portraits of Kurdish Women fighters

     

    “We want to demonstrate to the world the presence of women and their capability to fight and defend their rights as well as to be able to take a position in the military sphere.” A member of Women’s Protection Unit “YPJ” said.

  • Gaza’s forgotten residents

    Gaza’s el-Wafa Center for Aged Care is home to tens of elderly Palestinian men and women, many of whom suffer from physical ailments and have no relatives left to care for them.

    The home, located in the central Gaza Strip, provides its residents with basic health services, meals and rehabilitative care. Caretakers at the centre, which offers its services free of charge, are paid by donors.

    The home aims to strengthen ties between its elderly residents and the broader community. Some of the centre’s residents suffer from degenerative diseases, while others have simply been left alone in life with nowhere else to turn.

  • Syrians flee battle for Tal Abyad

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    Thousands of Syrians have been fleeing the city of Tal Abyad on the Turkish-Syrian border since it began to be targeted by US-led coalition jets amid ground clashes between fighters of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group and Syrian Kurdish units of the YPG backed by their allies.

  • The Battle for Kobane

    Fighters from the Syrian Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) and Kurdish Peshmerga are fighting against Islamic State (IS) group in the Syrian besieged border town of Ain al-Arab (Kobane)

  • Um Al-Nasser Bedouin Village, GAZA

    Um Al-Nasser Bedouin Village, GAZA

     

    The Bedouin village is an area in the north of Gaza Strip known as Um Al Nasser village which is home to many of Gaza’s Bedouin.

    Gaza Bedouin community is a poorly funded, often neglected sector, whose simple homes are predominantly made of galvanized sheets for walls, floors of sand. Curtains are used as partitions or doors for privacy, Roofs are made of rusted old sheets of galvanized.

  • Rebuilding Gaza’s Tunnels

    Rebuilding Gaza’s Tunnels

    After the Egyptian army destroyed from their side all the tunnels connecting Gaza to Egypt, Palestinian tunnel workers and owners are starting to rebuild the underground channels in Rafah, near the border between Egypt and the Gaza Strip.

  • The Little Smuggler

    Mohamed Alhwani a 12-year-old, Palestinian refugee lives in Rafah city near the Egyptian border in the southern Gaza Strip, he spend 6 hours a day at work inside the tunnel, and returns late at night while in the morning he goes to school.

  • City of the Dead in Cairo and Gaza

    Cairo and Gaza are sharing the same suffering as both of their citizen took the cemeteries as homes to live and practice their daily life with dead and tombs.