The Beekeeper of Aleppo
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He asked me about life in Syria. I told him about my beehives in Aleppo.
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‘This shop is what the world would smell like if there were no humans.’
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But in Syria there is a saying: inside the person you know, there is a person you do not know.
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To stay in the UK as a refugee you must be unable to live safely in any part of your own country because you fear persecution there.
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‘It was cold but sunny today! Now it’s raining! This English weather is like a madman!
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In the summer of 2016, and again in 2017, I found myself in Athens, working as a volunteer in a refugee centre.