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Jumana Jaber's project called "Chemo Therapy and Chemical Weapons." The Syrian artist says it juxtaposes her experience with breast cancer in 2006 with the Syrian government's attacks on its people now.

A Syrian family in New Jersey create art and music that they couldn’t back home

June 20, 2016Arts

President Obama is falling short on his pledge to accept 10,000 Syrian refugees by the end of September. But some Syrians have already been granted visas and are living here, not as refugees, but as visiting professors.

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