Mahmoud Raslan

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Mahmoud Raslan is a Syrian who publishes pictures and video recordings from the civil war in Syria .

Life

Raslan works for the Aleppo Media Center , a group of volunteers that has been delivering news to the international media from neighborhoods of the city of Aleppo held by opposition groups since 2011 . His video recordings and a resulting image of the Syrian boy Omran Daqneesh in Aleppo, who was injured in air raids in August 2016, became known worldwide.

In 2016, Raslan posted a picture showing him with fighters from the Syrian Islamist group Harakat Nour al-Din al-Zenki . Members of this group had beheaded the 12-year-old boy Abdullah Issa a few weeks earlier.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Moritz Baumstieger: War in Syria: The man who photographed little Omran comes into focus. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. Süddeutsche Zeitung GmbH, August 19, 2016, accessed on February 20, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Mahmoud Raslan: “I took the picture of little Omran in Aleppo”. The Daily Telegraph , August 19, 2016, accessed August 22, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Steffi Dobmeier: Doubtful contacts: photographer from Aleppo is in focus. In: Berliner Morgenpost. Berliner Morgenpost GmbH, August 20, 2016, accessed on February 20, 2018 (German).
  4. ↑ The beheading of Abdullah Issa. In: lowerclassmag.com. December 8, 2016, archived from the original on August 23, 2016 ; Retrieved December 8, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Raslan, Mahmoud
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Syrian photographer
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century