Fighting for Syria: doctoral student helps her home country

Along with her sister Buschra, Afra Jalabi, a doctoral student, was one of five Canadian representatives to attend a conference in Istanbul. The Montreal Gazette reports that during the conference, the Syrian National Council was created and is currently drafting a new constitution for Syria. The group hopes that through their actions, the people of Syria will see that “there is a viable future beyond the protest.” Many in the international community have condemn what Jalabi qualified as “a brutal repression of a mainly peaceful protest movement in Syria.”