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March 19, 2018 02:24 pm PDT
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/1eEjm7fRGi8/refugee-champs-elysees.html
The fashion boutiques that line the "Champs-lyses" of a massive Syrian refugee camp are a fascinating lens on the crisis
Sara Elizabeth Williams' long, beautifully written profile of the merchants who established illegal storefronts on the Champs-lyses, a stretch of road in Jordan's Zaatari refugee camp -- home to 93,000 Syrian refugees -- is a lens on the crisis created by decades of western complicity in the brutal Assad regime, followed by a global proxy war fought on Syrian soil, with no compassion or regard by any of the belligerents for the civilian costs. (more…)
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