Someone who lives at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and rarely reads can look at these photos. This beautiful project is a gift to him. Empathy is born in stories.
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These exquisite and sensitive photographs move the reader into a world unknown to many of us yet familiar at the same time- a family together, loving, facing challenges, but with the added difficulties and stress that come with refugee status and with the need to begin new lives. Remarkable story.
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Outstanding journalism, writing and photography.
Excellent publishing. Beautiful individuals and family.
Demonstrates why the NY TIMES is a national treasure, a vital voice.
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Thank you for these amazing photographs that capture such personality. It is difficult to think of all of the refugees striving to find a better life in this unstable world. We can only hope that they find peace and a sense of home.
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Beautiful piece.
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This is the classic American story. Imperfect, rough, but hopeful for the belssings of American life.
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The great journalism that we would like to see in the NYT instead of the omni present perverse and colloquial opinion columns.
This is real life.
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Beautiful and touching. Their strength and grit represent the best of America. Sucking up the brightest and bravest from the world.
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Thank you for illuminating the lives of your family for us; they are strong and we can all learn from the trials they've gone through-- as refugees from war and displacement; and as immigrants who make a new life with grace and courage. This is what America looks like. Bravo.
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I really enjoyed these photographs and the glimpse they give into this family's life. I loved the honesty and vulnerability of the article. What they have all endured! And what strength it takes to have come so far.
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Such expressive photos. Thanks for this portrait of an America many of us don't get to experience.
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I certainly hope all goes well for them. These are people we should be welcoming with open arms.
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Wonderful photographs and story - of personal courage, determination and making a better life in a new land.
The UN High Commission for Refugees recently announced that the number of people forcibly displaced from their homes increased by 2.9 million in 2017, bringing the total to 68.5 million people.
More than half are children.
Among them are 25.4 million refugees, 40 million internally displaced people and 3.1. million asylum-seekers.
In Lebanon, one in six of its residents is a refugee. In Jordan, refugees are 7 per cent of the total population and the government spends one-quarter of its revenues hosting them.
A Refugee is a person; boy, girl, woman or man. Not a label, but a human being with a beating heart just like you and me.
Help the refugees who are out there. On water. On Land. On our conscience.
شكرًا جزيلاً
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Heartwarming and enlightening window on a story that many of us cannot concretely imagine. I find it always so striking to learn about people’s lives, and this article shows how similar we all are.
Starting from the mental health struggles to the need to belong to a group that accepts everyone as equal, human social history is like a cycle that always follows the same pattern.
I truly hope that this can serve as a reminder that we all are seeking the same thing: happiness with our beloved ones.
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This was a fascinating photo essay about Weasam's family. I would have liked to read more details about the family's lives and the area where they live though.
They seem to be becoming "American" but keeping elements of their own culture as well.
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Such grace and strength in Wesaam’s story and photographs. I want to see and here more about his family and the refugee experience. Inspiring and heart breaking at the same time.
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