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In this 17-minute video, follow Issa Touma as he enters Aleppo while it was besieged and documents "a city of surreal contradictions, where street cleaning carries on while gunshots ring out in the distance, and people marry, have babies and make art amid threats of death and destruction." Primarily in Arabic with English subtitles, the video is available at https://aeon.co/videos/gunfire-and-dance-parties-the-contradictions-of-everyday-life-in-syrias-civil-war