“What is your name?” asked General Mohammad.  “Matthew,” I said. I had stopped saying Matt a while ago because it means ‘dead’ in Arabic.  On New Year’s Eve in 2012, Matthew Schrier was headed home from Syria, where he’d been photographing the intense combat of the country’s civil war. Just 45 minutes from the safety … Continue reading The Dawn Prayer (or How to Survive in a Secret Syrian Terrorist Prison)