Willem Staes (1990) works as a Middle East expert at 11.11.11.

He travels regularly to Lebanon, Turkey, Syria, Jordan and Palestine. Previously, Staes lived and worked in Palestine, Turkey and Egypt.

Info

Name
Willem Staes
Expertise
Middle East
Country
Belgium
City
Brussel

Supported projects

No Man's Land

  • Environment
  • Human Rights
  • Migration

DAMASCUS - In No Man's Land, Middle East expert Willem Staes travels across Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, Jordan and Iraq. During nine trips between August 2021 and March 2023, he will see for himself how Syrian refugees find themselves in the most hopeless situation since the Syrian revolution in 2011.

Rebuilding Raqqah

  • Armed conflict
  • Terrorism

AR-RAQQAH - "Bomb after bomb after bomb." Dima is peeling potatoes in the kitchen when rockets are fired at her house. She loses a leg and two fingers. There are 7 dead. All citizens.