Latest from Arwa Damon
Bringing Color Back to Syria
Former CNN correspondent Arwa Damon writes about returning to Syria and working with the country’s traumatized children.
The Devastation of Lebanon
The majority in Lebanon don’t view Israel’s attacks as a war on Hezbollah, but more as a war on everyone. It’s a view reinforced with each bomb, and by a mounting death toll that already far surpasses that of the 2006 war.
Gaza in a Million Pieces
I walk past beds of children in bandages, children with metal rods poking out of tiny legs and arms, children with burns, children with necrotic tissue. Like many others, I watched Gaza’s horror unfold on TV and social media and lacked the words to express it. I am here; I am seeing it for myself. I understand so much more, and yet I find myself even more incapable of articulating the extent of what I am witnessing.
The Gaza War Is Traumatizing a Whole New Generation on Both Sides
I am a big proponent of understanding emotional history, even in the context of “news,” especially traumatic violent news. I believe that part of understanding the “why” in which we find ourselves at a certain juncture does not just include the decisions and events that propel us there but also the emotions that drove those decisions and events.
As Gaza Braces for a Ground Invasion, the Circle of Violence Continues
With this level of horror, this level of heightened emotion that plays straight into both Hamas and Israel’s hands, it’s hard to comprehend just how costly the endgame is going to be or what that even looks like. But the trauma of this, like the traumas of the past, I fear is also going to end up embedded in the DNA of generations to come.