Abdulkader Kurabi is a researcher and news editor from  north-west Syria. He is a graduate from al-Azhar University  in Egypt and the University of Damascus and he is currently  completing a degree in Istanbul University. He has covered the  Syrian conflict for several Arab newspapers from Istanbul as  well as Syria.

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Accord Insight Issue 4: Borderlands and peacebuilding

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