Tag: Zaarari camp

PostArt, Human Rights, Humanitarian Aid, Jordan, Refugees, Syria, UNICEFby Salaam Cultural Museum

How Art Is Helping Children in One Syrian Refugee Camp

This is the first in a series co-produced by Syria Deeply and Hyperallergic, investigating the visual and cultural responses to the crisis in Syria. Among the many disquieting truths that appear in the sprawling report from the Za’atari refugee camp recently penned by the New Yorker’s David Remnick, an exchange with a UNICEF official Dominique...

PostHumanitarian Aid, Refugees, salaamculturalmuseum, UNHCR, UNICEFby Salaam Cultural Museum

You think you know what it will be like, but you can’t even imagine the reality

The numbers are so daunting that you can’t imagine the strain on a single country to be taking in so many refugees in such a short period of time. In the last week we have been getting in over 3,000 Syrian refugees a day- the number used to be 700. The fighting is increasing in...