Critical Conditions

As seen and heard on 60 Minutes, This American Life, and in The New York TImes — a frontline eyewitness account of the Syrian Revolution from prizewinning journalist and activist Hadi Abdullah. 'This is Hadi al-Abdullah. A few years ago, he was studying to be a nurse. But when war broke out in Syria, he took a different path. He chose to join antigovernment protests and tell the world the story of an uprising that became a civil war. Years of conflict turned him from an eyewitness into a frontline war reporter. This new role of his brought added risk, for himself, and for his friends and colleagues. Sometimes they would go towards the bombs, sometimes the bombs would come towards them.' —New York Times documentary 'Dying to Be Heard: Reporting Syria's War' Abdullah became a trusted voice on social media, where he joined the ranks of cyber-dissenters and reported from the battlefields. After the brutal siege of Homs in 2013, Abdullah fled north to Idlib Province among the rebel