Refugees Tell the Story of the Syria They Left Behind

The Takeaway | Feb 22, 2018

Since Sunday, over 270 civilians in Syria have been killed in eastern Ghouta, a rebel-held area outside of Damascus. President Bashar al-Assad’s forces, backed by Russian aircrafts, have been bombing the territory. It’s one of just a few rebel strongholds left in Syria.

According to the U.N. Refugee Agency, more than 5.4 million Syrians have fled the country since civil war broke out in 2011.

Wendy Pearlman is a professor of politics at Northwestern University. From 2012 to 2016, Pearlman spoke with over 300 Syrian refugees, and started to piece together a narrative of Syria, one that she published last year in the book, “We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria.” Here, she explains what life is like for millions of Syrian refugees as the violence continues within their country.

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