Lebanon’s Tobacco Industry

Photos by Bilal Hussein Syria’s conflict has caused hundreds of thousands of refugees to flee to Lebanon, putting a huge strain on the Lebanese economy and its already-crumbling infrastructure.

For Asylum Seekers, Dutch Prisons Feel Like Home

Photos by Muhammed Muheisen With crime declining in the Netherlands, the country is looking at new ways to fill its prisons.

Syria Refugee Children Fear For Their Future

Photos by Muhammed Muheisen About half of the 4.8 million Syrians who fled their homeland are children, and some of the most vulnerable live in dozens of makeshift tent camps, including in Jordan, which has taken in close to 640,000 refugees.

Pregnant Syrian Refugees Fearful of Future

Photos by Muhammed Muheisen Pregnant refugee women living in informal tent settlements are among the most vulnerable of the hundreds of thousands of Syrians who have found shelter in Jordan.

Syrian Refugees in Jordan

Photos by Muhammed Muheisen Dozens of small, makeshift tent settlements have sprung up across Jordan, home to thousands of Syrian refugees who don’t want to live in large, government-supervised refugee camps but can’t afford to live in towns and cities.

Syrian Refugee Life

Photos by Khalil Hamra Life in Jordan’s Zaatari camp is getting harder for 130,000 Syrian refugees, most of whom have fled fighting in southern Syria.