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The Unwanted: Stories of the Syrian Refugees: A Graphic Novel

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by Don Brown

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What kind of research went into this book? Did the author conduct interviews with Syrian refugees? I’m mostly interested in the personal experiences of these people and I want to know whether or not this book can provide that kind of narrative.
Krista Dolzer The author tells us in an afterword that he visited three Syrian refugee camps in Greece in 2017. He also includes an extensive bibliography of newspa…moreThe author tells us in an afterword that he visited three Syrian refugee camps in Greece in 2017. He also includes an extensive bibliography of newspaper articles that he accessed online. That said, while he mentions a handful of specific refugees throughout the book, it felt more like an aggregate look at the Syrian refugee experience than an intimate one (or at least it did to me).

For a more intimate look, I recommend the documentary "Sky and Ground," which embeds a camera crew with an actual refugee family as they make their way from a refugee camp in Greece to relatives in Germany: http://worldchannel.org/programs/epis... The family was originally from Aleppo and smuggled themselves from there to Greece before coming into contact with the filmmakers, who were looking for a group of refugees willing to let their camera crew tag along. It was very real and very gripping.

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