{"id":6619,"date":"2022-01-15T00:04:30","date_gmt":"2022-01-14T22:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/?p=6619"},"modified":"2025-07-15T08:35:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T06:35:13","slug":"children-in-search-of-refuge-a-photographic-essay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/children-in-search-of-refuge-a-photographic-essay\/","title":{"rendered":"Children in Search of Refuge: a Photographic Essay"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><\/h4>\n<h4>Iason Athanasiadis<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6>What must the world look like for children fleeing war, famine, political persecution, instability, only to live precariously?<\/h6>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-6619 gallery-columns-1 gallery-size-large'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/image-2-needs-caption.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/image-2-needs-caption.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-6620\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/image-2-needs-caption.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/image-2-needs-caption-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/image-2-needs-caption-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/image-2-needs-caption-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-6620'>\n\t\t\t\tForced by circumstances, a Syrian family in southern Turkey lives in a smoky, barely-heated room, bedding down on dirty blankets. Its members experience bouts of debilitating depression Schoolchildren attend class at a Unicef school in the Eslahiye Camp in southern Turkey (Athanasiadis)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/children-in-classes-605A9178_DxO.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/children-in-classes-605A9178_DxO.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-6621\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/children-in-classes-605A9178_DxO.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/children-in-classes-605A9178_DxO-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/children-in-classes-605A9178_DxO-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/children-in-classes-605A9178_DxO-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-6621'>\n\t\t\t\tPupils hold up their hands to catch the teacher\u2019s attention at a Unicef school in the Eslahiye refugee camp in southern Turkey (Athanasiadis)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/untitled-Darulaman-Fashion-724_DxO.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"661\" src=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/untitled-Darulaman-Fashion-724_DxO.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-6622\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/untitled-Darulaman-Fashion-724_DxO.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/untitled-Darulaman-Fashion-724_DxO-600x397.jpg 600w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/untitled-Darulaman-Fashion-724_DxO-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/untitled-Darulaman-Fashion-724_DxO-768x508.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-6622'>\n\t\t\t\tA young Afghan boy runs past the crumbling neoclassical edifice of Darulaman Palace in Kabul. The historical building, constructed in the 1930s, is the former palace of Afghan King Zahir Shah and also served as the Ministry of Defence.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/9-A-Syrian-boy-waits-with-his-family-members-in-a-women-only-queue-at-the-Zaatari-refugee-camp-in-Jordan.png'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"644\" src=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/9-A-Syrian-boy-waits-with-his-family-members-in-a-women-only-queue-at-the-Zaatari-refugee-camp-in-Jordan.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-6623\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/9-A-Syrian-boy-waits-with-his-family-members-in-a-women-only-queue-at-the-Zaatari-refugee-camp-in-Jordan.png 1000w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/9-A-Syrian-boy-waits-with-his-family-members-in-a-women-only-queue-at-the-Zaatari-refugee-camp-in-Jordan-600x386.png 600w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/9-A-Syrian-boy-waits-with-his-family-members-in-a-women-only-queue-at-the-Zaatari-refugee-camp-in-Jordan-300x193.png 300w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/9-A-Syrian-boy-waits-with-his-family-members-in-a-women-only-queue-at-the-Zaatari-refugee-camp-in-Jordan-768x495.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-6623'>\n\t\t\t\tA young boy stands on railings close to a UN food voucher distribution point in the Domiz refugee camp in northern Iraq.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/8-Internally-displaced-Pashtuns-from-southern-Afghanistan-look-through-a-car-windscreen.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"601\" src=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/8-Internally-displaced-Pashtuns-from-southern-Afghanistan-look-through-a-car-windscreen.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-6624\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/8-Internally-displaced-Pashtuns-from-southern-Afghanistan-look-through-a-car-windscreen.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/8-Internally-displaced-Pashtuns-from-southern-Afghanistan-look-through-a-car-windscreen-600x361.jpg 600w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/8-Internally-displaced-Pashtuns-from-southern-Afghanistan-look-through-a-car-windscreen-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/8-Internally-displaced-Pashtuns-from-southern-Afghanistan-look-through-a-car-windscreen-768x462.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-6624'>\n\t\t\t\t Internally-displaced Pashtuns from southern Afghanistan look through a car windscreen refashioned as a window in a windswept mudhut dwelling in a camp close to the Afghan city of Herat.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/6-Afghan-migrants-sleep-on-the-ground-at-a-makeshift-camp-in-the-Pedion-tou-Areos.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"665\" src=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/6-Afghan-migrants-sleep-on-the-ground-at-a-makeshift-camp-in-the-Pedion-tou-Areos.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-6625\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/6-Afghan-migrants-sleep-on-the-ground-at-a-makeshift-camp-in-the-Pedion-tou-Areos.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/6-Afghan-migrants-sleep-on-the-ground-at-a-makeshift-camp-in-the-Pedion-tou-Areos-600x399.jpg 600w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/6-Afghan-migrants-sleep-on-the-ground-at-a-makeshift-camp-in-the-Pedion-tou-Areos-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/6-Afghan-migrants-sleep-on-the-ground-at-a-makeshift-camp-in-the-Pedion-tou-Areos-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-6625'>\n\t\t\t\tAfghan migrants sleep on the ground at a makeshift camp in the Pedion tou Areos (Champ-de-Mars) in central Athens, after arriving overnight in Athens from the islands of the eastern Aegean Sea.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/7iInternally-displaced-Afghan-girls-stands-in-a-muddy-patch-of-as-yet-undeveloped-land-in-Kabul.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"516\" src=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/7iInternally-displaced-Afghan-girls-stands-in-a-muddy-patch-of-as-yet-undeveloped-land-in-Kabul.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-6626\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/7iInternally-displaced-Afghan-girls-stands-in-a-muddy-patch-of-as-yet-undeveloped-land-in-Kabul.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/7iInternally-displaced-Afghan-girls-stands-in-a-muddy-patch-of-as-yet-undeveloped-land-in-Kabul-600x310.jpg 600w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/7iInternally-displaced-Afghan-girls-stands-in-a-muddy-patch-of-as-yet-undeveloped-land-in-Kabul-300x155.jpg 300w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/7iInternally-displaced-Afghan-girls-stands-in-a-muddy-patch-of-as-yet-undeveloped-land-in-Kabul-768x396.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-6626'>\n\t\t\t\t Internally-displaced Afghan girl stands in a muddy patch of as-yet-undeveloped land in Kabul. The photo was taken in 2011, as real estate prices exploded in the Afghan capital, one of the few places in the country which were relatively safe from insurgent attacks, creating tensions between developers and internal refugees seeking safety. \n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/4-An-internally-displaced-boy-whose-arm-was-blown-off-by-a-landmine-looks-at-the-camera-in-an-ICRC-center-in-Kabul.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"662\" src=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/4-An-internally-displaced-boy-whose-arm-was-blown-off-by-a-landmine-looks-at-the-camera-in-an-ICRC-center-in-Kabul.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-6627\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/4-An-internally-displaced-boy-whose-arm-was-blown-off-by-a-landmine-looks-at-the-camera-in-an-ICRC-center-in-Kabul.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/4-An-internally-displaced-boy-whose-arm-was-blown-off-by-a-landmine-looks-at-the-camera-in-an-ICRC-center-in-Kabul-600x397.jpg 600w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/4-An-internally-displaced-boy-whose-arm-was-blown-off-by-a-landmine-looks-at-the-camera-in-an-ICRC-center-in-Kabul-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/4-An-internally-displaced-boy-whose-arm-was-blown-off-by-a-landmine-looks-at-the-camera-in-an-ICRC-center-in-Kabul-768x508.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-6627'>\n\t\t\t\tAn internally-displaced boy whose arm was blown off by a landmine looks at the camera in an ICRC center in Kabul.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/2-Syrian-girl-attends-classes-refugee-camp-in-southern-Turkey.png'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"662\" src=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/2-Syrian-girl-attends-classes-refugee-camp-in-southern-Turkey.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-6628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/2-Syrian-girl-attends-classes-refugee-camp-in-southern-Turkey.png 1000w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/2-Syrian-girl-attends-classes-refugee-camp-in-southern-Turkey-600x397.png 600w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/2-Syrian-girl-attends-classes-refugee-camp-in-southern-Turkey-300x199.png 300w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/2-Syrian-girl-attends-classes-refugee-camp-in-southern-Turkey-768x508.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-6628'>\n\t\t\t\tA Syrian girl attends classes at a refugee camp in southern Turkey. \n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/1-A-Syrian-boy-carries-bread-to-his-familys-trailer-home-Jordan-Zaatari-refugee-camp.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"674\" src=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/1-A-Syrian-boy-carries-bread-to-his-familys-trailer-home-Jordan-Zaatari-refugee-camp.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-6629\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/1-A-Syrian-boy-carries-bread-to-his-familys-trailer-home-Jordan-Zaatari-refugee-camp.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/1-A-Syrian-boy-carries-bread-to-his-familys-trailer-home-Jordan-Zaatari-refugee-camp-600x404.jpg 600w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/1-A-Syrian-boy-carries-bread-to-his-familys-trailer-home-Jordan-Zaatari-refugee-camp-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/1-A-Syrian-boy-carries-bread-to-his-familys-trailer-home-Jordan-Zaatari-refugee-camp-768x518.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-6629'>\n\t\t\t\tA Syrian boy carries bread to his family&#8217;s trailer home in Jordan&#8217;s Zaatari refugee camp .\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/A-Libyan-child-stands-amid-a-crowd-of-praying-men-in-the-courthouse-square-in-Benghazi-during-the-early-stages-of-the-2011-Libyan-Revolution.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/A-Libyan-child-stands-amid-a-crowd-of-praying-men-in-the-courthouse-square-in-Benghazi-during-the-early-stages-of-the-2011-Libyan-Revolution.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-6630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/A-Libyan-child-stands-amid-a-crowd-of-praying-men-in-the-courthouse-square-in-Benghazi-during-the-early-stages-of-the-2011-Libyan-Revolution.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/A-Libyan-child-stands-amid-a-crowd-of-praying-men-in-the-courthouse-square-in-Benghazi-during-the-early-stages-of-the-2011-Libyan-Revolution-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/A-Libyan-child-stands-amid-a-crowd-of-praying-men-in-the-courthouse-square-in-Benghazi-during-the-early-stages-of-the-2011-Libyan-Revolution-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/A-Libyan-child-stands-amid-a-crowd-of-praying-men-in-the-courthouse-square-in-Benghazi-during-the-early-stages-of-the-2011-Libyan-Revolution-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-6630'>\n\t\t\t\tA Libyan child stands amid a crowd of praying men in the courthouse square in Benghazi during the early stages of the 2011 Libyan Revolution. \n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Libya-kids-crossing-bridge.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"665\" src=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Libya-kids-crossing-bridge.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-6631\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Libya-kids-crossing-bridge.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Libya-kids-crossing-bridge-600x399.jpg 600w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Libya-kids-crossing-bridge-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Libya-kids-crossing-bridge-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-6631'>\n\t\t\t\tLibyan children led by an adult cross a bridge against the backdrop of palls of smoke rising into the air.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/A-six-year-old-victim-of-the-Libyan-Revolution-looks-out-from-a-panel-of-22martyrs22-in-a-museum-in-the-city-of-Misrata.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/A-six-year-old-victim-of-the-Libyan-Revolution-looks-out-from-a-panel-of-22martyrs22-in-a-museum-in-the-city-of-Misrata.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-6632\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/A-six-year-old-victim-of-the-Libyan-Revolution-looks-out-from-a-panel-of-22martyrs22-in-a-museum-in-the-city-of-Misrata.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/A-six-year-old-victim-of-the-Libyan-Revolution-looks-out-from-a-panel-of-22martyrs22-in-a-museum-in-the-city-of-Misrata-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/A-six-year-old-victim-of-the-Libyan-Revolution-looks-out-from-a-panel-of-22martyrs22-in-a-museum-in-the-city-of-Misrata-300x200.jpg 300w, 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Libya&#8217;s fledgling army is faced by a range of challenges to its authority and that of the interim Libyan government.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A couple of things happen when children come into contact with traumatic events such as war and uprooting: unforgettable, life-defining experiences, and an acceleration in maturity which we sometimes describe as \u201closing one\u2019s innocence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Children inherit the consequences of their elders\u2019 mistakes. They are often unprepared receptacles for the same oppressive societal trickle-down that socially and psychologically formed their parents.<\/p>\n<p>From 2011 onwards, as I worked on journalistic, documentary and UN assignments in Afghanistan and countries affected by the Arab Spring, I encountered crowds of children \u2014 accompanied and not \u2014 subjected to terrible pressures: laboring in informal workshops; begging or selling drugs in order to support their families; and sleeping rough in the snowy streets of Istanbul or in Athenian parks and squares frequented by sexual predators.<\/p>\n<p>Everywhere I went, older people said that the wars and refugee living had created a vast cultural gap that made their children uncontrollable. This turned into a chasm when they settled down to new lives in countries and cultures that were very different to the Syrias and Afghanistans they left behind.<\/p>\n<p>The banal thing about watching children suffer dreadful conditions is that they show little outrage. They appear accustomed to their new reality. Worse, in cases of extended displacement, they may even have lost the ability to compare with a once-upon-a-time normality, as their previous lives were interrupted when they were still too young, or they were born during the dislocated years.<\/p>\n<p>Watching kids emerge from leaky basements in provincial Turkish or Jordanian towns to grapple with a harsh and school-less reality, I often experienced a sense of mute injustice. They had been deposited there through no choice of their own. But I also admired their toughness and scrabbly adaptability: pragmatic, primed for survival, and extremely multilingual. I\u2019ll never forget the Somali 12-year-old in a Greek refugee camp who scrolled through near-fluent English, Greek, Turkish, Arabic and Farsi during a five-minute discussion. For all the present hardship, it was also clear that the experiences would craft impressive adults.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photographer, documentarian and journalist Iason Athanasiadis shares images from more than 10 years of reporting from Afghanistan to Greece and 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