The Home I Worked to Make: Voices from the New Syrian Diaspora

War forced millions of Syrians from their homes. It also forced them to rethink the meaning of home itself.



In 2011, Syrians took to the streets demanding freedom. Brutal government repression transformed peaceful protests into one of the most devastating conflicts of our times, killing hundreds of thousands and displacing millions. The Home I Worked to Make takes Syria's refugee outflow as its point of departure. Based on hundreds of interviews conducted across more than a decade, it probes...