Mateo Nelson

Writing

Selected Clips

New York Magazine’s Bedford + Bowery

The Country’s First Arabic Newspaper Took Root in Gilded Age New York (January 2020)

Syria Direct

Aleppo city, one year after the final battle (December 2017)

The agony of absence: Wives of disappeared detainees face uncertainty, social pressures (October 2017)

Under the bombs, east Aleppo doctors work ‘madly, defiantly, steadfastly’ (September 2016)

Life in the aftermath: A wounded Homs city struggles to reconcile its past (December 2016)

Revolutionaries, pawns, liberators or mercenaries? Meet the Kurdish fighters participating in Turkey’s Afrin offensive (February 2018)

A crowd-sourced animal sanctuary in east Aleppo teaches compassion: ‘To love the small, weak cats is to love everything’ (August 2016)

At least 50 killed, hundreds injured in Idlib ‘gas attack’ as rescuers say they cannot keep up (April 2017)

Idlib town reels following major chemical attack: ‘No rebel positions, just people’ (April 2017)

Search for the dead begins in Idlib after Islamic State-linked brigade leaves for Raqqa (February 2017)

Raqqa city a ‘minefield’ as clearing efforts expected to take months (November 2017)

Bloody urban fight for Raqqa city drags on amid ‘vicious’ IS counterattacks (July 2017)

Civilians and Islamic State fighters pay thousands of dollars to leave south Damascus for opposition territories, Turkey (February 2018)

Bloody night gives way to bleak morning in east Aleppo (October 2016)

‘Complete annihilation’: Syrian regime’s Aleppo offensive enters third day (September 2016)

Newborns in encircled north Homs face malnutrition, emaciation as funding for baby formula falls through (November 2016)

Christian town braces for the worst as Islamic State 3km away (November 2015)

Interview: When it comes to attacks on journalists, military defeat of the Islamic State ‘is not the end of the story’ (December 2017)

(See all work for Syria Direct here)