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Meet the Syrian Man Stranded at the Kuala Lumpur Airport for 91 Days and Counting

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.

Abby Seiff

Displaced Syrians, who fled their homes in the eastern Syrian city of Deir Ezzor, 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.

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Viewfinder: A Refugee Camp in Northeastern Syria

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.

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. The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) launched the exhibition, which underlines how children experience war through works inspired by poetry by Syrian refugee children.

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Viewfinder: A UNICEF Arts Exhibition in Beirut

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.

Pacific Standard Staff

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Who Takes Care of Refugees Now?

The world's poorest nations. And Germany.

Marc Herman