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Never stop acting for Palestine - CKUT 90.3 FM broadcast Saturday March 1, 2025 Darren Ell, Photographer Ehab Lotayef, Poet and community organizer Rickie Leach, Musician and photographer Emma, community organizer and activist Hosted by Stefan Christoff Kawalees (كواليس) 5175A Park Ave Montreal, Quebec H2V 4G3 This broadcast will be live on CKUT 90.3FM during the Funky Revolutions program 2-4pm across Montreal, at ckut.ca as well as for broadcast on Radio AlHara in Palestine. Music in the broadcast, in order of appearance: Fadi Tabbal - All those nights Fadi Tabbal - I am all that is left Michel Banabila - Where Old Meets New William Ryan Fritch - Phototropic koeosaeme - VI (excerpt) This broadcast is supported by the Social Justice Centre at Concordia University and the accompanying graphic is by Josh MacPhee. A community event series about grassroots mobilization and action in the face of genocide in Palestine. This series aims to create space for people to hear from community members who have moved from talk into action, have engaged in collective work toward creating space to both express solidarity with the Palestinian people and also to call out the complicity of the Canadian state with the extremist right-wing government carrying out genocidal actions in Gaza. This event series aims to lift up grassroots voices of people working on diverse initiatives and projects to express solidarity with the Palestinian people, voices who have both refused silence and who have found pathways for action in the community. Info on participating groups and speakers Rickie Leach helped make the community zine ‘No Silence' with Stefan Christoff and Rapaël Foisy-Couture and she also helps the group Papineau pour Palestine. This group has a meeting the following day that is open to the public, Sunday March 2nd, at William Kingston Centre at 2pm. Ehab Lotayef is an Egyptian-Canadian poet, writer and justice activist who moved to Canada in 1989. He is deeply involved in social and community work, including campaigns against the sanctions and war on Iraq, opposing the blockade of Gaza and advocating for Indigenous rights. Over the years he has worked with the Egyptian Canadian Coalition for Democracy, the Muslim Council of Montreal, the Muslim Schools of Montreal, the Canadian Arab Federation, Fair Vote Canada, and Montreal City Mission. He is also a founder of Non a la loi 21 (#NL21) campaignand and Kalemat, a freethinkers' forum aiming to advocate open dialogue among Arabic-speakers. Emma is a Lebanese-Palestinian-Canadian community organizer and activist. Since the early 2000s, she's been involved in different forms of pro BIPOC activism, lately, mainly for Palestine. Most forms of her activism involve fundraising for families and projects on the ground in Palestine and Lebanon via bake and merch sales with organizations such as Families 4 Palestine MTL, which is a family-friendly, warm and versatile group full of talented parents and children. She's also involved in community organizing, political organizing, creative content creation, as well as organizing demonstrations and protests in Montreal and surroundings with many individuals and groups such as Action Mtl. Darren Ell is a documentary photographer and a recently retired teacher and union representative. His work on Palestine dates back to the 1990's when he was writing for independent media in Saskatchewan. In 2001, he began publishing photo essays with Electronic Intifada about Palestine solidarity in Montreal. He travelled throughout the West Bank and Gaza during the Second Intifada, publishing photo essays with Electronic Intifada, conducting interviews and making portraits for Defence for Children International Palestine, and fundraising for a family that lost its home through demolition by the IDF.
Sara Elemary is a prominent Egyptian-Canadian fashion designer who founded her eponymous label in 2009. Her brand is known for blending modesty with bold, empowering designs that reflect women's strength and resilience. Sara Elemary studied Business Marketing but pivoted to fashion after recognizing her passion for empowering women through style. Her personal journey of overcoming challenges greatly informs her designs, which advocate for self-expression, authenticity, and freedom of choice in modest fashion #hikmatwehbi#SaraElemary#podcast #arabicpodcast#hikmatwehbipodcast #wstudiodxb حكمت_وهبي# حكمت_وهبي_بودكاست#
In this episode, Lynn and Christie chat with Salma Hindy about her religious upbringing in Canada as the daughter of an Imam; her transition from biomedical engineering to comedy; her decision to take off the hijab; and her personal revolution of choosing to celebrate her body, embrace her sexuality, and love herself at all costs. .... Salma Hindy is an Egyptian-Canadian stand-up comedian. She is most noted for her appearance in the second season premiere of Roast Battle Canada, for which she and the other participants received an ensemble Canadian Screen Award nomination for best performance in a variety or sketch comedy program or series at the 11th Canadian Screen Awards in 2023. Her debut comedy album, Born on 9/11, was released in 2022, and you can catch her on the upcoming animated Amazon series #1 Happy Family USA. Follow her on Instagram & TikTok, and find her on YouTube!
From trigonometry, calculus, and system design courses to the glamorous world of social media, Tamer emerges as one of the most prominent Egyptian-Canadian content creators in North America. We embark on a journey to explore what it was like being a full-time engineering student and part-time content creator, and how Tamer was able to produce quality content in the past couple of years. We also delve into cultural dynamics and their effects on children growing up in Canada. We compare and contrast aspects of life in Canada versus the Middle East and how different environments have shaped our current selves من كورسات المثلثات والحساب التفاضلي وتصميم النظم إلى عالم التواصل الاجتماعي الساحر، يظهر تامر واحدًا من أبرز مبدعي المحتوى المصريين-الكنديين في شمال أمريكا. ننطلق في رحلة لاستكشاف كيف كانت حياة طالب هندسة بدوام كامل صانع محتوى بدوام جزئي، وكيف نجح تامر في إنتاج محتوى ذو جودة خلال السنوات القليلة الماضية. كما نقوم بدراسة ديناميات الثقافة وتأثيرها على الأولاد الذين ينمون في كندا. نقارن ونقدم مقارنة بين بعض جوانب الحياة في كندا مقابل الشرق الأوسط وكيف تشكل البيئات المختلفة شخوصنا الحالية
Remy had the extreme pleasure talking to the hilarious and wonderful Salma Hindy -- a first-generation Egyptian-Canadian comedian, writer, actor and performer who has opened for Ken Jeong, Ramy Youssef, Beth Stelling, and Chelsea Handler. Salma tells us all about growing up in a very strict religious household and the ways in which it effected her sexuality and self-view. She tells us all about ending her relationship with people pleasing and how she pivoted to self-pleasing, with the help of therapy, comedy, and a few sex toys. She regales us with many stories of her first time experiencing all things sexual in her late 20s-early 30s and this episode is all of the things Salma is: funny, interesting, endearing, and just gets better and better as time goes on. TW: Eating disorders, body image issues, religious trauma, sexual assault/ sexual violence, blood Love How C*m? -- RATE, REVIEW & SUBSCRIBE Follow Salma at @Salma.Hindy Follow / DM us at @HowCumPodcast @RemyKassimir Support the podcast/ get extras on Patreon Check out our website for extra info & merch!
Moe Ismail (@moemoeismail) is an Egyptian-Canadian stand-up comedian who was named as Just for Laughs New Face of 2023. He joins The Stephan Dyer Podcast to share his experiences from the challenging first years of comedy, the pivotal moment it all clicked by embracing his true self, key takeaways from performing at Just for Laughs, escaping the competitive trap through authenticity, invaluable advice for budding comics, and the crucial role of mental health for a sustainable career in comedy. Want to hire Stephan, catch his Live stand-up, or book him for a corporate workshop? Click here! The Stephan Dyer Podcast is produced by Narzely Guevara and edited by Carlos Bolivar. #TheStephanDyerPodcast
In this episode, two-time Pulitzer-prize winning photojournalist, Nariman El-Mofty, sits down with Mikey for a compelling conversation about photojournalism, capturing history and human stories, and the impact of the Orientalist gaze within the news industry. Nariman shares her experiences in producing coverage about HIV in Egypt, Yemen, and the Tigray War. We discover how Nariman came to photojournalism, how she feels to be in front of the camera instead of behind it, and the importance of being a fly on the wall to capture candid human stories. Nariman El-Mofty is an award winning Egyptian-Canadian photojournalist based in Cairo. Her work is dedicated to documenting stories on human rights, as well as long-term projects focussed on social and cultural issues. She worked at The Associated Press between 2011 and 2022 and received 2 Pulitzer Prizes for Breaking News for her coverage of the war in Yemen and in Ukraine.Created & Hosted by Mikey Muhanna, afikraEdited by: Ramzi RammanTheme music by: Tarek Yamani https://www.instagram.com/tarek_yamani/About the afikra Conversations:Our long-form interview series features academics, arts, and media experts who are helping document and/or shape the history and culture of the Arab world through their work. Our hope is that by having the guest share their expertise and story, the community still walks away with newfound curiosity - and maybe some good recommendations about new nerdy rabbit holes to dive into headfirst. FollowYoutube - Instagram (@afikra_) - Facebook -Twitter Support www.afikra.com/supportAbout afikra:afikra is a movement to convert passive interest in the Arab world to active intellectual curiosity. We aim to collectively reframe the dominant narrative of the region by exploring the histories and cultures of the region- past, present, and future - through conversations driven by curiosity. Read more about us on afikra.com
The 2022 Qatar World Cup has come and gone. Most fans will remember the exhilarating matches and the dramatic final. They will recall the emergence of Morocco as the tournament's darling. For some, the politics will stick in their mind: expressions of support for the Palestinians, struggles over support for LGBTQ rights, and the unprecedented more than a decade-long campaign by human rights groups and trade unions to improve the working and living conditions of migrant workers. The tournament may be history but the often-fierce debate about Qatar is not. To be sure, the debate has moved on. It focusses on lessons learnt from a country that at least when it came to workers rights was willing to engage. Those lessons are particularly relevant with countries like Saudi Arabia set to host a slew of tournaments over the next decade and bidding for many more. The bids include an effort, together with Egypt and Greece, to win the hosting rights for the 2030 World Cup. Saudi Arabia and Egypt, two of the world's worst violators of human rights, are, in contrast to Qatar, unlikely to recognise their critics, let alone engage with them. Gulf states' forays into sports are not limited to hosting. They involve the acquisition of high-profile clubs like Manchester City, Paris St. Germain, and Newcastle United, and now perhaps even Manchester United as well as celebrity players like Neymar and Ronaldo. The forays also involve attempts to control whole sport discipline with Saudi Arabia's creation of an alternative golf tournament and effort to Saudi to set up world's richest cricket competition while Qatar has invested in the International Padel Federation to create new global tour. The Qatari World Cup experience may well embolden the kingdom in maintaining a hard line. Criticism of Qatar was relentless in the 12-year walkup to the 2022 World Cup. Yet, the Gulf emerged from the successful hosting of the tournament with its reputation enhanced rather than tarnished. Similarly, perceptions of the debate about Qatar that was as much about legitimate rights issues as it was skewed by prejudice, bias, sour grapes, and a Western-centric focus, is likely to reinforce Saudi reluctance to engage. To discuss these issues, I am joined today by Karim Zidan, an acclaimed Egyptian Canadian journalist, short story writer, and translator.
What a dynamic discussion with composer, performer, bandleader and lovely human - Sam Shalabi. Sam Shalabi is an Egyptian-Canadian composer, improviser and guitarist living between Montreal and Cairo. Starting out during the late 70s punk era, his work has evolved into an experimental synthesis of modern Arabic Music that incorporates free improvisation, traditional Arabic music, noise, classical, text, and jazz. Other than his numerous solo albums, he is a founding member of Shalabi Effect, a free improvisation quartet that bridges western psychedelic music and Arabic Maqam. He has also released four albums with Land Of Kush, the experimental 30-member orchestra which he directs. He has appeared on over 30 albums and toured Europe, North America and North Africa. Dig in to this incredible episode of Industry Tactics with the great Sam Shalabi!
Egyptian-Canadian comedian Moe Ismail shares with us about his life, comedy and Debut Album, Homeroom Habibi.
Salma Hindy is an Egyptian-Canadian comedian who opens for Chelsea Handler regularly, is a writer on Ramy Youssef's new animated show and has an album out called "Born On 9/11". We talk about her parents emigrating from Egypt to Canada, her father becoming an Imam in Toronto, growing up wearing the hijab, not being allowed to talk to the neighbors and being ashamed of herself. Salma has gone from being a 30 year old biomedical engineer who had never kissed a boy to performing in front of thousands of people and finding humor in her pain. She tells me about what religion means to her now, why she's very Egyptian, and the time her cousing almost beat up her ex-boyfriend's Mom in a mall in Cairo. Please check out Salma on IG @Salma.Hindy, listen to her album and follow the podcast @immigrantjampodcast. You can send us questions/thoughts/ideas at immigrantjam@gmail.com and if you love this podcast please consider supporting our Patreon:-)
Salma Hindy is a first generation Egyptian-Canadian Comedian. She is a graduate of Stand Up Comedy from Second City Toronto and has performed in comedy shows and festivals around the nation. Her comedy topics range from politics, to her experiences as the child of immigrant parents. Salma recently appeared on the hilarious Fuse series, True Dating Stories, to share her worst date story - an awkward blind date that her father arranged... and actually joined. You can watch the recreation of this date on Fuse TV, or listen to her talk about the date in our interview with her! In this podcast-exclusive interview, we got the hilarious details about her disaster date, along with hearing more about Salma's unique background, experiences, and who inspires her! Remember to follow womendotcom on instagram and subscribe to The Women.com Podcast for more exclusive interviews.
Omar Sharif Jr. talks with Emmy Winner Charlotte Robinson host of OUTTAKE VOICES™ about his new memoir “A Tale of Two Omars: A Memoir of Family, Revolution and Coming Out During the Arab Spring” published by Counterpoint Press. In this must-read memoir Omar shares intimate details of his personal story along with the lessons he inherited from his family that have helped prepare him to become a global leader in our fight for LGBTQ equality. He writes with brutal honesty about his upbringing and adolescence as well as the traumas and heartbreaks of his adult life. From bullying and sexual assault to being unable to return to Egypt after announcing he was gay this is a powerful and highly readable personal story from a writer with such a diverse background. The grandson of Hollywood royalty Omar Sharif on his father's side and Holocaust survivors on his mother's, Sharif learned early on how to move between worlds from the Montreal suburbs to the glamorous orbit of his grandparents' Cairo. His famous name always protected him wherever he went. Then in the wake of the Arab Spring he made the difficult decision to come out in the pages of The Advocate in 2012 that changed his life forever. “A Tale of Two Omars” also provides lots of Hollywood insider stories and intriguing gossip over the decades. We talked to Omar about his inspiration for writing “A Tale of Two Omars: A Memoir of Family, Revolution and Coming Out During the Arab Spring” and his spin on our LGBTQ issues. Omar Sharif Jr. is an Egyptian Canadian actor, model, author and LGBTQ activist who currently lives in the United States. He is the grandson of actor Omar Sharif and actress Faten Hamama. He appeared in the 2017 short film “11th Hour” at the Tribeca Film Festival and was the face of Coca-Cola for the Arabic world and appeared in a major Calvin Klein print campaign in Egypt. Currently, he is appearing in Assi Azar's hit TV Series “The Baker and The Beauty” that's airing on Keshet in Israel and on Amazon Prime globally. “A Tale of Two Omars: A Memoir of Family, Revolution and Coming Out During the Arab Spring” is available on Counterpoint Press. For More Info… LISTEN: 500+ LGBTQ Chats @OUTTAKE VOICES
Salma Hindy is a first-generation Egyptian-Canadian comedian. Though Salmna studied biomedical engineering (read as: her day job), Salma has had a fast rise to fame as a Muslim comedian. She touches topics in jest that many of us know too well — from the cultural taboos of dating to her relationship with hijab. Follow Salma at: Instagram TikTok YouTube Facebook --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/laylool/message
Salma Nasr El Din is an Egyptian-Canadian painter. A graduate of the University of Alexandria’s Fine Arts program, majoring in expressive arts and interior design, Nasr El Din talks with Sara and Marshall about her exquisitely striking imagery inspired by vintage photography and the bygone era of female portraiture and elegance, and her gratitude for the support of Waterloo Region’s diverse and vibrant arts community. SALMA NASR EL DIN BONN PARK INSTAGRAM SUPPORT LOCAL: GIFTED WATERLOO HEARTBEAT HOT SAUCE THE GARLIC KING
There’s an intuitive attraction to the idea that if we could just spend some quality time with someone from another group, we’d both come to appreciate, and maybe even like, the other person and perhaps even their group. Enormously simplified, that’s the basis of contact theory, which Gordon Allport posited in the 1950s as the United States grappled with desegregating its public schools. If differing groups could be brought together cooperatively – not competitively – in a manner endorsed by both groups and where each side met on an equal footing, perhaps we could, as Salma Mousa puts it in this Social Science Bites podcast, “unlock tolerance on both sides and reduce prejudice.” Mousa, currently a postdoctoral research fellow at Stanford University’s Department of Political Science, tells interviewer David Edmonds that since Allport’s heyday, “We have [had] a lot of studies about contact, but we need experimental tests of contact.” She’s been working to address that need, sometimes using the football pitch as a field site, with work that’s caught both the public and the scientific imagination. One experiment she was part of examined the incidence of hate crimes once Mohamed “Mo” Salah, the talented Egyptian soccer star, signed with Liverpool Football Club. The results were heartening; Merseyside, where the club is located, experienced a 16 percent drop in hate crimes while anti-Muslim tweets from Liverpool’s fans dropped to half the number compared to fans of other Premier League clubs. In this interview, Mousa details another experiment involving football and otherness, albeit an experiment made under harsher conditions: “We set out to learn if positive, social contact across social lines can reduce prejudice, can build friendships, can overall improve relationships between groups even in postwar settings, like Iraq.” The experiment was conducted along the faultlines of northern Iraq where there’s a Kurdish enclave. Working with a Christian community organization which was helping Christians and Muslims displaced by ISIS, the researchers recruited Christian amateur soccer players for a football league. They then added three or four players to each team, randomly adding either all Muslims or all Christians as the newcomers, and tracked player attitudes and actions on the field and off for a half year after the season ended. Amid some “really profound friendships” that formed, survey results and observed behavior showed that the Christian players came to be much more accepting and welcoming of their Muslim teammates. But that warming did not make the leap to their attitudes towards Muslims in general, suggesting some underlying prejudices remained in place. While her promising findings nonetheless were not the “home run” people of good will would have liked, the research earned the cover of the journal Science, and left Mousa feeling optimistic about further possibilities of contact theory. Given the difficult context of postwar Iraq and subjects scarred by their flight from ISIS, “to find some evidence that these guys actually became friends and we changed something in these communities, I think is positive, especially given that these communities are persecuted and highly distrustful.” Fostering tolerance and eroding prejudice, especially in the Middle East, matters personally to Mousa, an Egyptian-Canadian who grew up in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Canada. She’s focused on helping “fix” the region’s ethnic and religious divides: “I think of myself as an engineer but with a social science background.” Mousa has held fellowships at the U.S. Institute of Peace, Stanford’s Immigration Policy Lab, the Freeman Spogli Institute, the Stanford Center for International Conflict and Negotiation, the McCoy Center for Ethics in Society, and the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society. Her work has been supported by the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, the Innovations for Poverty Action Lab, the King Center on Global Development, the Institute for Research in the Social Sciences, the Program on Governance and Local Development, and the Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies.
In this episode of Nonnative Creative, Toronto-based Ibraheem Youssef shares about how his road to becoming a creative director (though now he calls himself simply a "creative"). Beginning with the story of his Egyptian-Canadian upbringing, we hear about how Ibraheem started drawing comics for friends and family in his childhood, how he designed a logo for a community member, and eventually attended design school before moving to Asia to work with clients from Hong Kong, Singapore, Jakarta, and more. He explains the challenges of finding a job in Asia (and how he overcame them), and also shares great advice for how to make your work stand out, how much energy you should put into pursuing awards/professional recognition, and why he feels someone with a variety of side projects is probably a person who knows how to think a little differently. Make sure to check out Ib's new YouTube channel and his other personal projects (in addition to his professional work) from the link below! Get a transcript of this talk (and other bonus materials) from the NNC Patreon (your support will help make sure the series can continue)!Find Ibraheem:YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/Goodmorningib/Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/Goodmorningib/Professional site: http://www.ibyoussef.com Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/goodmorningibJoin Nonnative Creative on Patreon and get access to bonus materials like interview transcripts, a patron-only Discord server, exclusive livestreams, and patron-only extras! Your support will help the project grow!https://www.patreon.com/nonnativecrea...Follow Nonnative Creative on social media for regular updates to keep your creativity flowing!Twitter: https://twitter.com/nnativecreativeInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/nonnativecr...Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nonnativecre...Website: https://nonnativecreative.com/Find Alisha on social media:Twitter: https://twitter.com/ArishaInTokyoInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/arishaintokyo/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/arishaintokyo/ ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
My name is Oudy, I'm an aspiring Egyptian-Canadian teen that wants to discuss daily diaries of two opposite cultural mindsets. I will be discussing either viral topics or barely topics that are significant but unspoken about such as cultural faults and analysis of society in the west and east. Besides, I will be hosting professional guests that explain their point of view about eastern communities and I explain what happens in the West. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Join Oliver as he chills with Canadian comedy veteran Wafik Nasralla! A seasoned comic, Wafik has been performing standup for over 25 years and has had his very own special on CTV's 'Comedy Now!'. On his first tour of the UK, Wafik saw that tour extended by 7 weeks due to popular demand. He was interviewed on BBC radio and also won 2 comedy competitions. Wafik describes himself hilariously as one of the funniest one-eyed, Egyptian-Canadian comedians on the planet!In this episode, Wafik shares his insights on the changing landscape of comedy over the years, and how that relates to his often edgy and racial humour. Wafik also talks about the difference between performing to Canadian and British crowds, respectively. Oliver inquires about the experience of having your own televised comedy special, and Wafik beams about the Ottawa comedy scene. There was a fantastic chat for another half hour or so, unfortunately after the recording had ended... All the more reason for Wafik to return!Recorded on February 10th, 2020Audio/Visual Production by Brian ReillyEdited (poorly) by Oliver GeorgeARCADE- Oliver: 10 / Guests: 4 (Wafik played solid. Went to 3rd round...)*a few very minor audio glitches in this one (ear-blink and you'll miss 'em!)
In celebration of Pride in Toronto, the girls of SDU are joined by Mina Gerges, an Egyptian-Canadian who is challenging traditional male beauty standards, and fighting homophobia that exists in Middle Eastern culture. Mina chats with us about what it’s like growing up in a family and culture that doesn’t accept his sexuality, how he went from having an eating disorder to posing naked for hundreds of thousands of people to see, and of course, what dating is like for him. Listen now and don’t forget to follow SDU at @SomebodyDateUs and Mina at @itsminagerges.
Patrick Sabongui is an actor, producer, teacher, and unrelenting advocate for diversity in the entertainment industry. Patrick's screen credits include plum roles on Homeland, The Art of More, Beyond, Godzilla, and The Flash, where he's played Captain Singh, the first openly gay character in the DC Universe, since season one. In 2018, Patrick was nominated for a Leo Award for his work in Drone, in which he played a Pakistani father whose family is killed in a hellfire missile attack. Patrick's experiences navigating discrimination in the film and television industry were the inspiration for Kyra Zagorsky's award-winning short film, The Prince. In this poignant episode, Patrick talks with Sabrina Furminger about growing up Egyptian Canadian, #stuntlife, and MENA representation in the film and television industry.
Be inspired to build a high-quality, minimalist wardrobe that will reduce your impact and simplify your every day. To launch this discussion, Lauren and Kelly are supported by growing ethical fashion brand, Kotn, an Egyptian-Canadian brand that was born out of a desire for quality, simple and sustainable essentials. Recorded at Kotn Toronto, Lauren and Kelly are joined by influential minimalists and Kotn supporters, Jack Greystone and Carter Reid to share ideas on how to embrace a conscious style and help grow the demand for ethical brands. Kotn Jack Greystone Carter Reid
Marwa Awad, an Egyptian-Canadian who is the head of communications for the UN’s World Food Programme in Syria, said the 46-truck convoy of health and nutrition supplies, along with food for 27,500 people, entered Douma — the largest town in eastern Ghouta — around midday
Marwa Awad, an Egyptian-Canadian who is the spokesperson for the World Food Programme in Syria, talks about her recent trip to the formerly besieged city of Deir ez-Zor, as well as the humanitarian situation in besieged eastern Ghouta, Idlib and Afreen areas of the country.