When people are forced to flee their homes, they often abandon everything except what they need for the immediate future. And for children, that can mean a

It’s not every day that a woman works as a farmhand and tractor driver in Lebanon, but that’s exactly what Nuhad El-Barqa does. When El-Barqa&r

My earliest memory is fleeing war-torn Lebanon when I was three and a half years old. My father had safely made it abroad and was waiting for my mother, my

I look forward to Ramadan as others may look forward to their summer vacations, because after 11 months of continuously running around, focusing on things

We realized that we had become the world’s discarded, and this knowledge was a great source of loneliness. We were anonymous and forgotten, cast aside as

Filmmaker Aliya Naumoff met sisters Rahaf, 21, and Habari, 17, in the spring of 2015, when she was filming a documentary about Syrian refugee women in Turk

Less that 24 hours after we arrived, the bombs started falling right where we were.

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The family's reaction to seeing Kunkush again is a clear reminder that behind the headlines of the refugee crisis are human beings just like us.

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The Syrian government will finally allow humanitarian aid groups to provide aid to several besieged towns in the war-battered country — but the move may

At first glance, Zein, Rafia (a pseudonym), and Ahed look like any other twentysomething-year-old women. But each had already experienced far more than mos

Ikea has applied its innovation to a design problem far more pressing than selling stylish furniture at affordable prices. The Ikea Foundation's Bette

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"The children are the most innocent victims of this conflict. They did not choose to leave their homes. Many of the children have told me that they especia

There were some days in prison that 25-year-old Noor never looked away from the wall, never spoke a word. Sharing a 10 foot by 11 foot cell with as many as

Najlaa and the other women quickly became a force to be reckoned with in the movement to bring democracy to Syria. But with that recognition also came risk