Middle East
Bana al-Abed: From a Syrian War Zone to New York City
As airstrikes rained down on Aleppo while the Syrian government wrested the city from rebel forces, Bana al-Abed and her mother, Fatemah, were tweeting daily about life under siege. “Good morning from Aleppo,” Bana said in halting English in one of the videos posted to her account in October. “We ar