In a small home in Damascus, Mustafa sits in silence and remembers the warmth of his family gathered around the dinner table, the rich aroma of Kafta and Kawaj filling the air. These dishes, once a symbol of love and tradition, have now become a distant memory. “I really miss the meat Kafta dish we used to prepare, or the Kawaj dish… Now, none of it is possible,” Mustafa says. “We cook whatever we have.” Life has changed drastically for …
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Nawal is a Syrian refugee mother from Daraa. She has been living in Lebanon since 2014 and, like thousands of other refugee mothers, Nawal is the sole provider for her family and the sole caretaker of her two daughters Shireen and Lava. Shireen, her younger daughter, is autistic. She survived breast cancer and today suffers from gland disease and severe diabetes. Lava, her older daughter, suffers from cerebral palsy. She can’t walk or move properly, stays in bed all the …
Ayman, 53, fled his home in Damascus in 2012. He describes how he lived a good life in Syria before the conflict started. He owned a workshop making women’s purses and a shop to sell them. He travelled to Dubai, Libya and Syria for work, trading with customers across the Middle East and worked side by side with his brother on a daily basis. But then everything changed. “We didn’t expect that events would happen like they did. We thought …
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