Oscar-nominated Syrian director Feras Fayyad has risked his life to chronicle the atrocities of the Assad regime, and suffered torture in prison because of his films. Despite having his nails pulled out and electric shocks administered to intimate parts of his body, Fayyad continues to...

Near the village of Hazano in northwestern Syria, children come running through the olive groves every morning to meet the bus that brings school to their improvised tented camp. Years of fighting and displacement in Idlib province have wrought chaos for the education of children,...

When Youssef Akhtarini landed in Providence, three years ago, his first instinct was to go to the local mosque. His second was to make baklava. So he took out his rolling pin—one of the few possessions he brought from the Middle East—and started to layer phyllo, cook down a lemon-kissed...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Mohamed Sweidan, a displaced teacher, had no choice but to use the shade of the olive trees in the Idlib countryside to teach the children. Sweidan, 34, fleeing the regime bombardment  moved with his wife to an olive grove in the town of Atma on the...