Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international team shares moments from their lives and work around the world.

A banner held up in the hall read, “It is Syria the Great, not Syria the Assad.” One of Maasarani's best known songs is “Jabeenak ’Ali w Ma Bintal,” which he first sang in 2012 ...

Only now, with ruler Bashar al-Assad forcibly ousted last December, ... Ayman al-Masri carries a notebook where he hand-wrote songs, in Homs, Syria, on Feb. 1.

If Syria is to rise from the Assad regime's ashes, its people must resurrect the spirit of the 2011 uprising in the post-Assad era. ... and creative song and dance. Above all, ...

Thousands gathered in northwestern Syria on Friday for weekly prayers and a rally where clerics in the port city of Latakia, a former stronghold of ousted President Bashar al-Assad, urged national ...

DAMASCUS, Syria — Sahar Diab had visited Damascus’ famed Umayyad Mosque previously. But as the Syrian lawyer went there to pray during her country’s first Ramadan after the end of the Assad ...

Now to Syria - many things have changed there since the Regime of Bashar al-Assad fell in December. NPR's Jane Arraf climbed on board the victory train in Damascus. It was once a propaganda tool ...

A banner held up in the hall read, “It is Syria the Great, not Syria the Assad.” One of Maasarani’s best known songs is “Jabeenak ’Ali w Ma Bintal,” which he first sang in 2012 ...

A banner held up in the hall read, “It is Syria the Great, not Syria the Assad.” One of Maasarani’s best known songs is “Jabeenak ’Ali w Ma Bintal,” which he first sang in 2012 ...

A banner held up in the hall read “It is Syria the Great, not Syria the Assad”. One of Maasarani’s best known songs is Jabeenak ’Ali w Ma Bintal, which he first sang in 2012, addressing ...