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 ...

Looking more deeply into French Queen Marie Antoinette’s reading habits led Ronald Schechter to fascinating discoveries about her intelligence, depth and inner-most thoughts and opinions. Schechter, ...

As he nears the foot of the stairs the sounds of war fade into silence, broken only by the echoes of his sandalled feet. In the gloom, the boy gropes for a light switch. With electricity now a rarity, ...

Hope is an orientation, a way of scanning the wall for cracks–or building ladders–rather than staring at its obdurate expanse. It’s a world view, but one informed by experience and the knowledge that ...