
A Lebanese refugee camp in the suburbs of Baalbak in April 2017.


Refugee camp in the Bekaa Valley, Lebanon in December 2016.


Syrian boy watching cartoons before leaving for school in Jbeil (Byblos), Lebanon. 2016

Syrian children playing in Beirut, Lebanon at a educational centre run by the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) in November 2016.

Lesson in a school run by the Jesuit Refugee Service in Baalbek, Lebanon.

English class for Syrian refugee students in the Jesuit educational centre in Beirut.

Syrian children on a school bus which takes students to school from the surrounding refugee camps.

Lesson in a school run by the Jesuit Refugee Service in Baalbek, Lebanon.

"Birds of paradise Kindergarten" -Syrian refugee children in Gym class. Baalbek, Lebanon

Syrian children writing their homework in a refugee camp in the Beqaa Valley, Lebanon.

Barber course for refugees in Beirut.

Syrian refugee women taking selfies upon a graduation after IT, English and make up courses for women in Baalbek, Lebanon.

Refugee camp in the Bekaa Valley, Lebanon. Dec. 2016.


Syrian man performing his maghrib prayer (the fourth prayer out of five, performed at sunset) in the Jordanian desert.

Syrian refugee family in front of their self-built house in the Jordanian desert, not far from the Syrian border in August 2016. The family got permission to emigrate to the US., but they decided to stay here with their other relatives. The men work on the black market while the women take care of children and animals around the house.

Samah and Ali with their six years old daughter and five months old son in Madaba, Jordan in August 2016. They left Syria after losing their 6 month old daughter in a chemical attack. Their youngest child was born in Jordan.

A wedding dress in front of a vandalized shop in Karamlesh, northern Iraq.

Syrian Catholics during Sunday mass in Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan in February 2017.

The room of the Syrian Catholic bishop. The Christian city of Qaraqosh with more than 50.000 inhabitants, was invaded by ISIS in 2014 and was occupied for more than two years. Most of the locals managed to escape to Erbil, the capital city of Iraqi Kurdistan. 2017

Christmas tree at the entrance of Qaraqosh, northern Iraq.

Deserted street view with the destroyed tower of Mar Benham church in Qarqosh, February 2017. Although the city was liberated by the Iraqi army in October 2016, the

Vandalized wall painting illustrating a biblical scene in Bartella, 23km from Mosul, northern Iraq.

A vandalized church in Bartella, northern Iraq. This and the other surrounding Christian towns were was occupied by ISIS in August 2014. The Iraqi forces liberated this area in end of October 2016.

Doll vendor in traditional Kurdish trousers in Iraqi Kurdistan.

Faris and his son Dilshar in a destroyed Yazidi shrine (mazar) in Bashiqa. Both of them are barefoot because it is forbidden to enter a mazar in shoes. Bashiqa was liberated from ISIS by Kurdish peshmerga forces in November 2016. Faris and his family came back 6 days ago.

Thousands of students from the surrounding refugee camps of Mosul on the way to finish their state exams in Bartella, February 2017. The University of Mosul was shut down by ISIS in 2014.

Refugee camp hosting IDP's (Internally Displaced Persons) from Mosul, Iraq. May, 2017.

A street of Mosul after liberation. May 2017

Ten months old Farah in a makeshift clinic in Mosul, Iraq.

Medics of the Iraqi Special Operations Forces (ISOF) treating a wounded civilian in their makeshift clinic in Mosul, Iraq. Barzan was hit by a shrapnel while walking down the street in the Yarmouk neighborhood of Mosul.


The former palace of Saddam Hussein is now a station for Kurdish Peshmerga forces.

The view from the former iraqi dictators, Saddam Hussein's palace. Gara mountains, Iraqi Kurdistan.