Author: Karen Leigh

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A Syrian refugee boy looks out of his parents' tent after heavy rain at the Al-Zaatari refugee camp, Jordan near the border with Syria (photo: REUTERS/Ali Jarekji)

Camps for Syrian Refugees in Zaatari and Atma

Cut off from the Rest of the World

Refugee camps are other-worlds where a tent becomes a home, a field of mud is a playground and where thousands of displaced Syrians are trying to adapt to a new, grim reality. Karen Leigh went to see for herselfMore

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