Hamah
Hama’s Enduring Pain
More than 40 years after the 1982 Hama Massacre, survivors still remember unimaginable horrors — families torn apart, children killed in front of parents and entire areas razed. Their stories reveal decades of trauma and a city’s enduring fight for justice.
Syria’s House of Poetry
Roula Roukbi is among the few Damascus socialites who created an alternative space for art, culture, and some politics in the city. She excelled at living as if Syria was a free country, and in many respects, her hotel came to embody a microcosm of what freedom might one day look like.