"Now, we're starting to feel more like we belong here, like we have lives, actually," she says with a smile. "When we escaped from the war we were really depressed, just sitting behind closed doors.

Nesrin had been pounding garlic all morning, but the pestle’s blunt thwack grew louder when she started talking about Syria. From 2010 to 2014, she marched in the revolution there.

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Zwawe came to Brazil as a refugee in 2013 after his restaurant in Damascus was destroyed in a bombing. He arrived with just $100 in his pocket and started peddling his dishes at food festivals ...

When Mohamad Orfali, the head chef and co-owner of Orfali Bros. Bistro in Dubai, received an email in January 2022 from the World’s 50 Best Restaurants group, he thought it was junk mail. He had ...

Chefs cooking the cuisine of Syria, Ethiopia, Afghanistan and more will take home 100% of the proceeds in this series of ...

The arrival of thousands of Syrian-Armenian refugees in Armenia is injecting a welcome dose of flavor into local cuisine, especially in the capital, Yerevan. The food sector has become a means of ...

With the Syrian conflict now in its eighth year, many of the millions of Syrians living as refugees in Turkey have long since realized they're unlikely to… Refugee Women Cook Up Syrian Cuisine To Eke ...