In decades past, mothers in Aleppo had a spell to unleash the voices of children suffering from alalia—speech delay. Can we apply their ritual today?

Nobody is quite certain where the famous Levantine folk song “`Al Rozana” originated: whether from an Italian ship bearing food during Lebanon’s great famine, or from some long forgotten love...

If you want to fill your pockets with silver, go ahead. If you don’t like the silver, put it back and fill your pockets with gold. Whatever you can carry,...