In May of 2017, I was privileged to join a group of travelers who spent ten days in Syria and Lebanon. Eleven of us traveled from the United States on a trip organized by the…
Aleppo is a place where children have stopped crying. Dusty-faced & shell-shocked, Not even a whimper comes from the tight-lipped mouth Of the blood-stained toddler. A nurse asks her mother, “is this your child?” Is…
The on-going conflict in Syria has been called the most serious humanitarian crisis of our lifetime. More than 11 million people have been driven from their homes, more than half a million killed, disrupting civil…