Yasmeen Al-Shawwa

Reconnecting with ancestral routes: a journey to Jerusalem

An American-born Gazan recounts the first time she and her father set eyes on their ancestral homeland — and their failed attempt at entering their native city.

Syrian refugee women pull themselves out of poverty in Jordan

Not willing to abandon hope, Lara Shahin empowered herself and fellow Syrian refugee women through a new business initiative of selling handmade soaps and a variety of handicrafts.