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Syrian youth: Five years later

Leila Al Bakhry at a Women’s Center in Eastern Ghouta.

Syrian women under siege share insights about love, fear and food

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Syrian women who live under siege in a a suburb of Damascus respond to our reader’s questions.

Ahmed Lababidi waits for the bus on Jeju Island. Lababidi left his war torn hometown, Aleppo, fleeing across the Turkish border in 2012. He followed his younger brother to South Korea and settled on Jeju.

What the new life of a Syrian on Jeju Island looks like

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A class at a women's center in Ghouta.

It’s important to listen to Syrian women, and here is one way you can help

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Essa Hassan is the first student to participate in Project Habesha, a Mexico City-based project that offers Syrians scholarships in Mexico. He lives and studies in the capital city of Aguascalientes in the central Mexican.

From Syria to Mexico: A young student finds an unexpected home

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Ahmed Lababidi left his war torn hometown, Aleppo, Syria, fleeing across the Turkish border in 2012. He followed his younger brother to South Korea and settled on the island of Jeju.

A Syrian man takes refuge in a Korean honeymoon resort island

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Children crowd around Zein in a camp in southern Aleppo.

As Syrian men go missing, women take new leadership roles, and bear new burdens

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With so many men killed or missing, it’s up to the women to run their community, and they’re making a difference in people’s lives, including their own.

Hiba Bekai's office is her home, where she sews and does other needle work that she sells to Syrians and Lebanese.

This Syrian woman never had a paying job at home. Now she’s started a business in Lebanon.

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The war back home in Syria forced women into new roles outside of Syria. Some of them are creating opportunities for themselves.