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 ...

Looking more deeply into French Queen Marie Antoinette’s reading habits led Ronald Schechter to fascinating discoveries about her intelligence, depth and inner-most thoughts and opinions. Schechter, ...

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 ...

In the midst of Syria's civil war, a group of residents in the war-ravaged town of Daraya risked their lives to assemble a secret library in the basement of a destroyed building. Those actions are now ...