Shahad's 10-year-old brother, Jasim, and baby sister, Aya, who was not yet two, were killed, along with five other family members. Rescuers pulled Shahad from the rubble, her face lacerated and silky ...

A dystopian landscape, a curse, a dark family tradition, and mermaids: These are just a few of the foreboding elements that make up Shahad Ameen’s Saudi Arabian feminist fable “Scales ...

Shahad is among more than 1.7 million Syrians, about half of them children, who have been forced from their homes into neighbouring countries by the two-year civil war. By the end of 2013, if ...