We Are Not Princesses, the first feature film by UC Santa Cruz alumna Bridgette Auger (SocDoc ’11) will have its world premiere on November 14 at DOC NYC, the largest documentary film festival in the ...

Before the workshop, the 35 Syrian refugee women who decided to join the theatre training in Beirut had never heard of Antigone. Three months later, when they took the stage to perform the classic ...

AMMAN, Jordan, January 6 (UNHCR) - Syrian director Omar Abu Saada has turned to a Greek tragedy written more than 2,400 years ago to tell of the female suffering in his blighted homeland. His staging ...

Six years ago, at the time of the first Trump administration’s Muslim ban and its initial round of vicious anti-immigrant policies, I visited a refugee camp on the Greek island of Samos to see how ...

In the six months since Bashar al-Assad was deposed as the country's dictator, refugees have been returning in their thousands to Syria. Over the course of the nearly 15-year civil war, more than 13.5 ...

While Syrians around the world are celebrating the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime, they are still cautious about what comes next. Celebrations erupted around Syria and crowds ransacked President ...

Rohan Mesto stands in front of his sponsor Kathy Hart's home in Lafayette on Dec. 5. Credit: Natalie Kerr “I’m going to use the bathroom, mom.” Rohan Mesto jogged up the hill and ducked behind a tree, ...