
Spoonful: When We Gather – Holding Syria Close in Philadelphia (2018 AFJ Award-Winner)
WINNER OF A 2018 ASSOCIATION OF FOOD JOURNALISTS AWARD: BEST FOOD COLUMN When Hanaa Al Atmah gathered her four children and walked to the Jordanian border from Daraa, their home city in southwestern Syria where the conflict began, her youngest son Alaa was just an infant. That was back in 2012. By then, war had been raging for some time, eventually finding its way to the family’s doorstep. As for so many, life in Syria had grown too dangerous. There was […]
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