The New Context

The Student Journal of International Affairs at The New School

Za’atari Camp

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Salam Neighbor – Bridging the Gap Between Two Worlds?

From January 19 through February 15, American filmmakers Chris Temple and Zach Ingrasci will be living alongside recently displaced families in a Syrian refugee camp in Jordan. Realizing the severity of their own lack of understanding and misconception of the Syrian […]

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Inside Za’atari Camp: A Photo Essay

Ben Homer visited the Za’artari Refugee Camp in Jordan in August 2013.  The media has seized on Za’atari Refugee camp as a focal point of the Syrian refugee crisis. Aerial photographs show the massive scale of the camp  which today […]

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Syria’s Lost Students and Scholars

By Marina Gabriel The New School recently hosted a Center for Public Scholarship event entitled “Syrian Higher Education in Crisis; The Road Forward.” The panel presentation aimed to provide the international community with ways to support Syrian academics and students. […]