Ages 10+

Sami's family moves from Hama to Maydanki, a predominantly Kurdish village in the Afrin area, because of his father's teaching work. Sami hears an unfamiliar language. He cannot speak Kurdish,...

In the winding lanes of late nineteenth-century Damascus, Khaled grows up in an old house near the Umayyad Mosque, dreaming of a different life. But his strict grandfather, harsh father...

Maryam sits among the jasmine flowers and on the swing with her friend Marisa, making dresses for their dolls, unaware that her life is about to change. When her father...