Photographers Capture Faces to Show Real Syria

His dark eyes glare at the camera as if it caught him doing something forbidden. He holds a pen. The nine-year-old boy doesn't attend school because of the crisis in his country. The caption says he misses school but, "I carry a pen with me wherever I go and write on anything I can." The photograph of Moaz from Eastern Ghouta, Syria, is part of an exhibition in the rotunda of a U.S. Senate office building. It captures the human spirit persevering against all odds, despite...

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