The civil war in Syria, now in its fifth year, has given rise to one of the worst refugee crises in decades. Its violence has caused over four million people to flee the country. Around 630,000 travelled to neighboring Jordan, where most (480,000) settled outside of...
Every month, 23,000 Syrian refugee families living in Jordan look forward to receiving the same text message. It’s a simple message, no more than a few words, but it’s what alerts them to their monthly financial assistance reaching their bank accounts. Since June...
Lessons learned from the Refugee Education Workshop at Stanford University. More than half of the 4.8 million refugees who have poured out of Syria are children. The world sees their faces as they cling to parents, bob in overburdened boats, cry in the arms of...
We sat on a bench under the sun conversing amidst sounds of young boys playing soccer and kids running to their next classes. This is seemingly a normal interaction that could be anywhere, like Central Park in New York for instance. But this was not a normal setting...
About 40 years ago, my parents and their relatives were stuck in refugee camps after they were forced to flee their homes in Vietnam. They faced a dangerous and uncertain future, running from one camp to another, not knowing where life would take them next. And yet,...
