What It’s Like to Live in the Capital of the ‘Caliphate’

https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/01/14/whats-it-like-to-live-in-the-capital-of-the-caliphate/

BY MARWAN HISHAM

Marwan Hisham is the pseudonym of a Syrian resident of Raqqa, Syria. 

JANUARY 14, 2016 

Religious sermons, air strikes, and itchy mandatory beards -- just another normal day in Raqqa.