At 13 years old, I had been wearing the hijab for five months. I could finally wrap it in a few different styles without it slipping off my hair, and I had learned how to use hijab pins without poking ...

A journey of a refugee Doaa Zamel, told in an incredible story of survival and chaos in Syria, is an eye-opening saga so powerful and frightening and unforgettable. The book opens describing Doaa’s ...

Melissa Fleming is the Head of Communications and Chief Spokesperson for the United High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and one of the world's experts on refugees. In A Hope More Powerful Than The ...

Angela Merkel made "one very catastrophic mistake"—at least according to Donald Trump. Earlier this month, in an interview with The Times of London, Trump lambasted the German chancellor for admitting ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Doaa and Bassem took up their places on the starboard side of the deck, wedging themselves between other passengers and settling in for ...

Doaa Al Zamel struggled to keep the baby in her hands above the surging waters of the Mediterranean Sea. A few feet away, the man she loved was dying before her eyes. “Bassem!” the 19-year-old Syrian ...

Her fiancée died trying to cross the Mediterranean. Doaa herself was rescued, and she was holding two babys in her arm when help arrived. Melissa Fleming of the UNHCR wrote a book about it. Anyone who ...

“I feel like we are being taken to our deaths,” Doaa told Bassem. At 11 p.m., they came to a halt about half a kilometer from a barren, sandy beach. “Get out and run to the shore!” the smugglers ...