What It’s Like to Live in the Capital of the ‘Caliphate’
Religious sermons, air strikes, and itchy mandatory beards -- just another normal day in Raqqa.
BY JANUARY 14, 2016RAQQA, Syria — I’d been away from home for a considerable time, so on my way back I had to reset my brain to a different setting: Raqqa Setting. I began growing out my beard, to a length that looked dense and suspiciously long in Turkey but is relatively short and daring here. I am still getting used to how it itches and scratch it often.
