Yahia Hakoum is a 32-year-old student from Damascus, Syria whom I met in Egypt in the winter of 2011 shortly after he fled his country. On March 15 of that year, he and nine other students had held the first…
Out of the fire of war a quiet man walks, full of thought. “Syria was like heaven on earth,” he says to me. I’m sitting with Fouad, a sweet and serious man wearing a crisp sky blue shirt in…
My new Syrian friends invited me to dinner in Jordan one night. In their airy white apartment we ate kubba nayeh, a dish native to their village in Idlib, we watched their children play and talked about the war. In…
Here is the story of a man with Israeli and Syrian citizenship who lives in a village in Lebanon. Impossible, you think? Not at all. This Syrian Israeli, whom we'll call B, is a 32-year-old dentist from an Arab village…