In 2010, with great fanfare, Turkey inaugurated a ferry route between Mersin and Lebanon’s Tripoli, a first between the two countries. It was hailed as an important milestone in Turkey’s strategy of renewed engagement with former Ottoman territories. The latter failed but the ferry line managed to survive.

مع بداية الحرب السورية، تحوّلت منطقة وادي خالد التي تربط شمال لبنان بالداخل السوري إلى ملجأ للاجئين السوريين

Wadi Khaled became home to some of the first refugees in the early days of the Syrian war. People here, who did not become Lebanese citizens until the 1990s, maintain mostly good relations with their Syrian neighbours – but face more hardship than others in the country.

Through folklore, papier-maché and painting, artists and refugee children in Lebanon are creating an alternative Syria.

An age-old saga of peace, love and war bringing together youth from Tripoli’s long time adversaries Bab Al-Tabbaneh and Jabal Mohsen.

Constance and Philippine Proux’s work focuses on the narratives of displaced Syrians living as refugees in Akkar, a frequently unstable border region.

Constance et Philippine Proux ont travaillé sur les trajectoires des réfugiés syriens vivant dans la région frontalière et sous tensions du Akkar.

Looking out from inside of the Al-Salam Mosque in Tripoli when hit by one of two explosions that killed 45 and wounded over 500.

Amidst the violence that routinely disrupts life in Tripoli, a group of Syrian refugees have formed a football team to help them cope with life in exile and the war at home.

Once a busy stop on the rails connecting Damascus and Haifa, Tripoli’s railway station is today overgrown and left with only memories.