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AFP photographer Sameer al-Doumy returns to Douma, the hometown in Syria that he escaped through a tunnel seven years ago after it was besieged by Bashar al-Assad’s forces. Douma, once a rebel stronghold near Damascus, suffered terribly for its defiance of the former regime, and was the victim of a particularly horrific chemical weapons attack in 2018. Sameer’s career as a photojournalist began when he and his brothers began taking photos of what was happening around them. In May 2017, Sameer fled through a tunnel dug by the rebels and eventually found himself in the northern rebel enclave of Idlib with former fighters and their families.
Sameer’s path eventually led him to France, where he spent the last few years covering the migrant crisis for AFP’s Lille bureau.
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