There are many things people don’t know about life in my home country of Syria. First, it was an incredibly beautiful, and incredibly normal, place in which to grow up. My friends and I were typical teenagers who looked forward to going out on Friday nights and the arrival of summer break. It is also […]

Yara Al Mazouni
Yara Al Maouni is a native of Damascus, Syria and a rising senior at Florida Atlantic University, majoring in Biology.