Syrian refugees

Trapped in an arrivals hall in a Malaysian airport, Hassan Al Kontar has the vagaries of the modern global systems of asylum to blame. To pass the time, he narrates his strange new life through selfie videos.

• By Abby Seiff

Displaced Syrians carry boxes of humanitarian aid supplied by the United Nations Children's Fund at a refugee camp in Syria's northeastern Hassakeh province on February 26th, 2018.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

People visit the exhibition "Haneen, a Collective Work of Lebanese and Syrian Artists on the Impact of War on Childhood," in Beirut, the capital city of Lebanon, on February 20th, 2018.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

The world's poorest nations. And Germany.

• By Marc Herman