We Are Not Princesses, the first feature film by UC Santa Cruz alumna Bridgette Auger (SocDoc ’11) will have its world premiere on November 14 at DOC NYC, the largest documentary film festival in the ...
The dozen Syrian women who were scheduled to perform the play “Syria: The Trojan Women” on campus last week before the State Department denied their visa applications saw their chances of eventually ...
Before the workshop, the 35 Syrian refugee women who decided to join the theatre training in Beirut had never heard of Antigone. Three months later, when they took the stage to perform the classic ...
AMMAN, Jordan, January 6 (UNHCR) - Syrian director Omar Abu Saada has turned to a Greek tragedy written more than 2,400 years ago to tell of the female suffering in his blighted homeland. His staging ...
In the 14 years since the war in Syria broke out, hundreds of thousands of people have been killed and millions have been displaced from their homes or have lost their livelihoods. What began as a ...
It started with the Syrian toddler. Wearing blue shorts, a red T-shirt and Velcro shoes, he was found dead on a Turkish beach. And the photos of his drowned little body went viral. “That was the ...
In 2015, Germany opened its borders to hundreds of thousands — many fleeing Syria and Afghanistan. But many women who arrived in the last 10 years do not work. What hurdles do they face, and how are ...
Women smoke a water pipe as they look out over the city at Mount Qasioun, Damascus, Syria, Dec. 21, 2024 (AP photo by Leo Correa). BEIRUT, Lebanon—Amal, a 19-year-old from Daraa, in southwestern Syria ...
Hundreds of Syrian refugees in Turkey are making a return to Syria every day, according to the Turkish Interior Ministry. But the majority are waiting to see how the new leadership takes shape. The ...
This study aims to explore the motives and factors that drive entrepreneurship in Syrian refugee women in Canada and the differential contexts that may support or hinder these activities. Using a ...
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Since the fall of Bashar Assad’s government in December, some 850,000 Syrian refugees have returned home from neighboring countries and the figure could reach 1 million in the ...