Posts in 'Syria'

At the beginning of the conflict in Syria in 2011, due to the bombing and heavy shelling, I was forced to leave and flee to Lebanon. Then when we got...
The NSC Employment Team partnered with the Global Guides program at the Penn Museum last year and referred clients from the Middle East to give...
Aisha and Hadeel have both encountered struggle and loss, but in the face of persecution and discrimination, they both have hope for the future and a...
For over twenty years, Radwan, a Syrian refugee, worked as an ESOL teacher in elementary schools in his native country. He always had the dream of...
"A debate pitting calls for tighter security against pleas for compassion roiled Washington and other communities Tuesday, as Republicans readied to...

Escape from Syria

"Explosions lit the sky over Damascus while Khaldoun partied with his friends late into a weekend night in August 2014...The next morning, the phone...
"Everything in my life was planned ahead of time with my family and my father was taking care of us emotionally and financially. He secured a job for...
On Wednesday, September 23rd, Jonah Eaton, an NSC staff attorney, discussed the U.S. and E.U.’s response to the refugee crisis in Syria on WHYY’s...