Maryam Saleh is Syrian–American. She was born and raised in the United States and relocated to the Middle East for several years before returning to the US to complete a degree in mass communications at the University of South Florida

Calm Before the Storm

[caption id="attachment_55239731" align="alignnone" width="620"] Omar ibn Al-Khattab Mosque in Hama, the site of the first anti-government…