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For more than half a century, the Assad family brutalized the Syrian people. With the death of Hafez al-Assad in 2000, after thirty years of government corruption, suppressed freedoms, and economic repression, power was then passed to his son, Bashar, where those issues were further exacerbated by twenty-four more years of terror.As in other countries… Continue reading Assad’s Syria

Yemen is a magical place. Its beauty is the land, the diversity of culture, its heritage, and the people. But that beauty has been marred by nearly a decade of conflict, a conflict that has led to the worst humanitarian crisis in recorded history. As author Lara Kajs points out, ignoring the crisis in Yemen… Continue reading Stories from Yemen: A Diary from the Field