[caption id="attachment_55250246" align="alignnone" width="620"] Krikor in Yerevan, Armenia. (Hannah Lucinda Smith)[/caption] “Flowers, I love flowers!” exclaims Krikor. “I used to skip school so I…

[caption id="attachment_55250212" align="alignnone" width="620"] Mohamed Aly Talibab performing live. (Still from Youtube, Ahmed Mekawy photography)[/caption]Mohamed Aly Talibab—he…

[caption id="attachment_55250704" align="aligncenter" width="940"] Hind Benali. (Alice Defour-Feronce)[/caption] “I get the feeling of [being] a warrior,” Hind Benali said in a recent interview with…

[caption id="attachment_55250094" align="alignnone" width="620"] One of Hala Smadi's Ottoman-style stools. (Courtesy of Wheels by Hala Smadi)[/caption] As she prepared for her final university…

[caption id="attachment_55250075" align="alignnone" width="620"] A still from Ghina Abboud's short film "Batoul...Do you see me?" (Courtesy of Nadi Lekol Nass)[/caption]Colorful posters for the five…

[caption id="attachment_55249980" align="alignnone" width="620"] A pedestrian walks past a poster appealing for aid donations for Syrian refugees by UNICEF in Sydney on April 22, 2014. (Peter Parks…

[caption id="attachment_55249862" align="aligncenter" width="620"] A still from the film "Karama Has No Walls," directed by Sara Ishaq. (Sara Ishaq)[/caption] "Anwar's life did not go to waste,"…

[caption id="attachment_55249826" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Mostafa El-Razzaz stands in front of one of his paintings at his latest exhibition, "Antara and Day Dreaming." (Ati Metwaly)[…

[caption id="attachment_55249773" align="alignnone" width="620"] A woman looks at art by Syrian refugee children at an exhibition in Beirut on February 21, 2014. (ANWAR AMRO/AFP/Getty Images)[…

[caption id="attachment_55249696" align="alignnone" width="620"] Saint Michael's Church in Ebbe, Tripoli in northern Lebanon. (Courtesy of Alessandra Bajec)[/caption] Father Arabius knows his city…