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 ...

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 ...

Syria ended a 14-year civil war last year, but the humanitarian crisis continues. Here’s what is happening in Syria, and what ...

KILIS, Turkey, July 30 (UNHCR) - For a woman who fled war and arrived in Turkey wearing flip-flops, Najlaa Sheekh has come a long way. Today, as the driving force behind the only known Syrian-run ...

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 ...

Most of the refugees are crossing into the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon. Istanbul, Sept. 22, 2013— -- Marjie Middleton, a midwife working with Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), spent several months this ...

AID REACHED THE NEEDY American servicemen and women ensured that the aid reached those in need, Moustafa told the audience at St. Peter's. Arkansas health professionals who heard about the Rukban ...

TOKYO, Japan — A swimmer who fled Syria as a teen is among the 29 athletes competing on the Refugee Olympic Team (ROT) in Tokyo this summer. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) says 23-year-old ...

MASSOUDIEH, Lebanon — The Syrian man was carrying his disabled 7-year-old son on his shoulders as the family arrived at a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Now that spring has arrived in the Middle East, Syria’s estimated 1.2 million refugees in Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan can hope for relief from the snow, the rain and the bitterly cold nights of winter.