Oral storytelling is a continued living tradition in Syria, practiced both in cafes and gatherings of family and friends. Stories, like the people who narrate and listen to them, change because of migration. Based upon a series of semi-structured interviews with Syrian women living in Jordan and organizers of storytelling projects, as well as observation of oral storytelling sessions, this paper explores how Syrian storytelling traditions have changed because of Syrians’ forced displacement to Jordan and Lebanon. Since 2011, close to 600,000 Syrian refugees have fled to Jordan, and over 900,000 to Lebanon. Forced migration has transformed the themes of stories and how Syrian storytellers narrate them. Along with folklore, oral storytellers draw upon lived experiences, and recording oral stories brings the oral history of the storyteller into the historical record. For displaced communities, oral storytelling connects Syrians to a distinctly different past, and opens an alternative space for the storyteller to confront lived experiences. Limited civil society efforts have been made to celebrate this tradition. Instead the storytellers themselves, predominantly Syrian women, negotiate its future. In a time when politics and media consistently deny the humanity of Syrians, stories highlight the creativity, humor, and resilience of storytellers and Syrian society. Oral stories belong to popular literature: there is no singular author or owner. For these reasons, this research focuses on oral stories narrated by Syrian refugee storytellers. With limited attention from journalists, scholars, and civil society, these women are the primary practitioners of oral storytelling. Studying oral storytelling among Syrian communities in Jordan and Lebanon reveals that storytelling is not a dying art, but rather a changing one. Through their courage to speak, in the most challenging of circumstances, Syrian women sustain oral storytelling as a vibrant, dynamic, and very much living tradition.