Amid the bombing campaign between the Syrian regime and rebel forces in the Damascus suburb of Daraya, a small group of young students tried to bring normalcy to the chaos by creating a secret library ...

For a country ravaged by ongoing war, and now by a pandemic, planning for the future might seem difficult—if not totally futile. But that's just what a group of young Syrians were doing when they ...

Looking more deeply into French Queen Marie Antoinette’s reading habits led Ronald Schechter to fascinating discoveries about her intelligence, depth and inner-most thoughts and opinions. Schechter, ...

In the midst of Syria's civil war, a group of residents in the war-ravaged town of Daraya risked their lives to assemble a secret library in the basement of a destroyed building. Those actions are now ...