The Journey from Syria, Part Six

In the previous episode of “The Journey,” Aboud Shalhoub stood at the arrivals area in Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport, holding a bouquet of tulips and tapping a pole with anticipation. Then his wife, Christine, and their two children rounded a corner, and the children hugged their father for the first time in three years as Christine looked on, weeping silently and waiting her turn. The odyssey was complete, but the family’s new life in the Netherlands had just begun. “I wish we could have this life in our country,” Christine told the filmmaker, Matthew Cassel. “I’m a refugee. But maybe just for a while.”

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Related:
The Journey from Syria, Part Five
The Journey from Syria, Part Four
The Journey from Syria, Part Three