The Syrian revolution has now almost inconceivably entered its 5th year. On March 15th, calendars quietly flipped back to the date which marked the beginning of the 2011 uprising that no one predicted would go on to black out the coming years as a full-blown war. Today Syria, the heart of the historical ‘Bilad al-Sham’, stands for a humanitarian crisis of historic proportions with some 200,000 killed and 9 million forced to leave their homes.
While those who have fallen in battle remain within the soil of their homeland, the living have often had no choice but to safeguard their lives in other lands. A majority of these Syrians crossed the borders into neighboring Jordan, Turkey and Lebanon where the predicament awaiting them was a difficult initiation into the stigmas of refugeehood.
