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 ...

Ashely Claudino is an Evergreen Staff Writer from Portugal. She has a Translation degree from the University of Lisbon (2020, Faculty of Arts and Humanities). She has been writing for Game Rant since ...

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, ...

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 ...

We have a pretty good guess where [Krizbleen] hides away any seasonal presents for his family: behind his shiny new secret library door. An experienced woodworker, [Krizbleen] was in the process of ...

Hope is an orientation, a way of scanning the wall for cracks–or building ladders–rather than staring at its obdurate expanse. It’s a world view, but one informed by experience and the knowledge that ...