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COMPUTERS 
October 25, 2019 MIT MEDIA LAB PROMISED SYRIAN REFUGEES FOOD COMPUTERS THAT COULD GROW ANY PLANT—BUT THEY DIDN’T WORK
Personal food computers (PFCs) developed by the Open Agricultural Initiative in MIT’s Media Lab and sent to Syrian refugee camps in Amman, Jordan have been revealed to be nonfunctional, according to an article published by IEEE Spectrum. The machines had been delivered to the United Nations World Food Programme which planned to give the computers to […]
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HOME & GARDEN 
December 16, 2018 Stranded In Airport For 7 Months, Syrian Man Is Granted Asylum In Canada
Hassan al-Kontar, 37, left his home in Syria for the United Arab Emirates in 2006. For seven months, Hassan al-Kontar was trapped in air-conditioned purgatory. Stranded in Terminal 2 at Kuala Lumpur International Airport, he slept under stairwells and lived off leftover chicken-and-rice dinners from AirAsia flights. He documented his daily life in video […]
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CLOTHING 
February 16, 2017 Syrian schoolgirl arrested by religious police for ‘inappropriate clothing’ freed after classmate protest
Syrian children walk to school in Idlib city during a brief ceasefire in September 2015 Reuters A young Syrian girl and her father, arrested by religious police in Idlib province, have been freed after vociferious protests from her classmates. Several male members of Idlib’s al-Hisba, or religious police, reportedly visited al-Orouba School for Girls without […]
