How one man’s pause became a haunting symbol of Aleppo’s destruction

It was a picture perfectly framed by a war: a 70-year-old man in socks and sandals, smoking a pipe beside an old record player, in the gray-dusted ruins of his bedroom in Aleppo. The world has followed Syria's long civil war through viral images. Its horrors were chronicled on Twitter by a 7-year-old girl. Its politics were humanized in […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2017/03/14/how-one-mans-pause-became-a-haunting-symbol-of-aleppos-destruction/