Zaina Erhaim studied journalism at Damascus University and then at City, University of London. She returned to Syria in 2013 to help cover life in rebel-held areas and train citizen journalists, who had been documenting the uprising since the start in places where Western reporters had no access. She worked there until 2016, mostly based in Aleppo, under daily bombings by the Assad regime and its Russian ally. This interview took place in Paris, while Erhaim was participating in a seminar on Syria at Université Paris-Diderot.
In 2013, you returned to Syria to help report on the ongoing uprising. When and why did you make the decision to report on the Syrian civil war?
