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 ...

After news emerged about an underground reading room in Damascus, Fiona Macdonald discovers the places where writing has been hidden for centuries. Beneath the streets of a suburb of Damascus, rows of ...

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 ...

As he nears the foot of the stairs the sounds of war fade into silence, broken only by the echoes of his sandalled feet. In the gloom, the boy gropes for a light switch. With electricity now a rarity, ...