LAT Reporter Returns from Syria
After many months of waiting, the Los Angeles Times was able to secure visa approval into Syria for reporter Alexandra Zavis. She was only allowed in for ten days; could not bring in any satellite equipment or laptops; and was accompanied everywhere by minders.
Zavis has now safely returned to Lebanon. As she tells colleague Emily Alpert, there were other obstacles to being able to cover an already tenuous and very dangerous corner of the world:
“Many people were afraid to be seen talking to us in case they would be questioned later.
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