When Afraa Hashem thinks back about living through the siege of Aleppo, she remembers how inventive everyone was.
In late 2016, Syrian government forces had sealed off Aleppo's rebel-held eastern half, with 270,000 people inside, and for months they and Russian warplanes blasted it to rubble. Food was scarce. Hashem’s family, like others, was largely surviving off one meal a day.
