If We Were Syrian See the crisis through their eyes.

If We Were Syrian

See the crisis through their eyes.

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No Easy Exits: The Unbearable Choices That Define Syrian Family Life
Humanitarian Crisis

No Easy Exits: The Unbearable Choices That Define Syrian Family Life

Imagine being asked to choose between your child's education and their physical safety — and having no good answer. For ordinary Syrian families, such choices are not hypothetical. This is a walk through the real, unscripted decisions that millions of Syrians face daily, presented not to overwhelm but to challenge the comfortable distance many Americans maintain from the world's most prolonged humanitarian crisis.

Recipes Carried Across Borders: The Syrian Table as an Act of Survival
Culture & Identity

Recipes Carried Across Borders: The Syrian Table as an Act of Survival

For Syrian families scattered across continents, the ritual of preparing and sharing a meal is far more than sustenance — it is an act of memory, defiance, and continuity. Through the hands of mothers in Detroit kitchens and refugee camp stoves in Jordan, traditional Syrian recipes have become living archives of a homeland many fear they may never see again.