At countless grocery stores across L.A., collections of ephemera scattered in the corners and on the walls offer something ...

To applause, percussionist Bahjat Antaki took the stage with Syria's national symphony orchestra, marking the first classical ...

The concert was a way of saying "we are here and able to produce art," despite more than years ... years of fighting were projected on the back wall of the stage, along with pictures of mass ...

marking the first classical concert at the Damascus opera house since president Bashar al-Assad’s ouster. The concert was a way of saying "we are here and able to produce art," despite more than ...

The hopes of liberalization raised at the start of Hafez al-Assad's son's rule were short-lived. Urged by his family, the ...

For all of its faults and weaknesses, no serious competitor has emerged to capture people’s imagination or seriously ...

By Dec. 6, the writing was on the wall when a massive uprising began in the south. Assad fled the country on Dec. 8, with rebels taking Damascus hours ... retail, art galleries, parks and other ...