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The Crossing
George Kurian

The Crossing

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Created
Oct 12, 2015
Updated
Feb 09, 2022
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Nabil Hilaneh bids adieu to the beit al Oud, playing for the last time there, to an empty hall. Having fled the despotism in Syria, he is unwilling to live under it in Egypt. In a few days he will stake his life for a chance at liberty.
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Aleppo, Syria: FSA (Free Syrian Army) fighters amuse themselves with a bust of Assad at the entrance to Salaheddin.
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Syria.
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On the outskirts of Aleppo. Syrians and the FSA flee Salaheddin.
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Aleppo: Piles of garbage lie in mounds on every street. Residents unsuccessfully try to burn these bags and the stinking piles grow by the day.
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An FSA fighter brought in earlier in the day after being shot by a sniper.
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The youth of Al Bab, protesting nightly. A young man stands on a mini-bus leads the call and response sloganeering as they make their way through the streets.
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Abu Maryam, an English teacher now turned rebel fighter, is organizing his own battalion to join the FSA.
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Children in Assas playing with casings and unexploded RPG shells.
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Recent recruits and voluneeters pose for a photo at an FSA center.
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Angela contemplates her future and the challenges ahead, sitting in a park in Milan.
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Kutouf, a psychologist, left her husband and took the greatest chance of her life in the hope of giving her children a life in a free society. After a week of seasickness, she still cannot believe that she is sitting on Italian grass.
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Their first evening on solid ground after the journey, the refugees begin to tell each other about what they experienced on the sea.
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