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 ...

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 ...

After news emerged about an underground reading room in Damascus, Fiona Macdonald discovers the places where writing has been hidden for centuries. Beneath the streets of a suburb of Damascus, rows of ...