One of the limited items Ruwaida carried with her on her journey was a wooden mold that her mother used to teach her to make traditional, Syrian cookies. Ruwaida had no idea as she packed the ...

Four years later, when they came to the United States the only thing she had left from that journey was a wooden cookie mold her mother used to teach her how to bake traditional Syrian cookies.

But each time Auvutu came to visit the family, Ruwaida served her own delicious cookies. Avutu realized an opportunity was staring her in the face. The idea for Sweet Sweet Syria, a cookie ...

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There, she founded HoneyDoe, a Syrian catering company, with her mother and her son. Ma’amoul cookies are a semolina shortbread flavored with mahlab — a powdered spice made of cherry pits ...

A Syrian sweet maker takes a tray of date cookies out of the oven in a sweet shop in Damascus, Syria, on Aug. 8, 2019. Date cookies are traditional sweets for the upcoming Eid al-Adha, or the ...

Nine-year-old Wael was enjoying cookies and milk on his balcony when ... into the ranks of the millions displaced by civil war in Syria. In the months after he was shot, Wael nearly died three ...