Live from the VIP.fund news desk, bringing you the latest updates from our community around the globe! We’ll be sharing a monthly news bulletin summarizing the activities, stories and developments happening across our programs and locations. Why now? Over the past...
The love story of Al Mu’tamid Ibin Abbad and his wife Etemad Al Rumaikiyyah is one of the most romantic love stories in Andalusian history. Historians believe that Prince Mohammad Ibin Abbad first met Etemad Al-Rumaykiah, his wife, near a valley he was passing through...
Live from the VIP.fund news desk, bringing you the latest updates from our community across the globe! We’ll be sharing regular news bulletins summarizing the activities, stories, and developments happening across our programs and locations. Why now? Over the past...
“Dostoevsky said, “There are things we say to everyone, things we say to some people, and things that we do not say to anyone.” My meeting with the AMC fund was great because it gave me an opportunity to talk about my feelings and the things I love. In the beginning,...
Syrian poet Fakhri Al-Baroudi once mentioned in his diary that in 1898, the German Kaiser Wilhelm II and his wife, Empress Augusta Victoria, visited Damascus. While traveling there, Empress was impressed with a white donkey that caught her eye and she asked the...
Wheat harvest season in the Syrian countryside is more than an end stage in an agricultural cycle, it is the time when people strengthen their relationships and get to know each other very well. Back in the 1970s, before the introduction of combine harvesters, farmers...
Syrian Refugee Students’ Reflections of Space in Jordan’s Double-Shift Schools After experiencing disruption, pain, and unimaginable loss, Syrian children arrived in Jordan and desperately hoped to regain their childhood and be students, friends, and aspiring...
A Latin Drink in Syrian Lands You may wonder if someone asks you, what is a common tradition between someone in South America and another one curled up on the sofa in Homs city, Syria? Well, it is neither a Barcelona fan nor someone obsessed with Lionel Messi. It is...
I am not as weak as they think. I am a refugee, therefore I am. Asylum made me stronger. During my asylum journey, I faced many difficulties but also learned many lessons. I am still offended when people associate being a refugee with being weak, uneducated, and...
Music is my life When I started learning music, there was a strange view of society towards me, because I live in a conservative society. Music is considered an unusual or undesirable path in my society, but despite the difficulties and challenges I have faced, I...