In Depth

A turning tide on women’s rights

On this Syrian beach, the chilling effects of a new conservatism become clear one year after Islamist fighters took power Mark MacKinnon Senior International Correspondent Photography by Hasan Belal Wadi qandil, syria The Globe and Mail Published 15 minutes ago

It was supposed to be a girls’ weekend at the beach. It became a nightmare that is whispered as a warning among Syrian women about their vulnerable new status in a country now run by former jihadists.

The four women – a 54-year-old journalist, her two nieces and one of their friends – had just retired to their rented cabin after a day at the idyllic beach at Wadi Qandil, on Syria’s Mediterranean coast, when gunmen burst through the door, shouting accusations that the women

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