In Damascus again after a hiatus of nearly eight years, I decided to see what remained of the city’s once flourishing Jewish community. The dictator was gone. The new Islamist rulers had yet to ...

A groundbreaking initiative led by Syrian-American entrepreneurs and engineers from Silicon Valley, California, is set to ...

But as the manager of the Madad cultural center in Damascus, the trained lighting technician has reason to worry. On New Year’s Eve, armed men stormed the historic stone building. «They told me ...