Walking Wounded…

In my new The World Post piece, “More Help Needed for Syria’s Disabled and Maimed,” I discuss some of the visible and invisible wounds afflicting Syrian refugees of all ages and abilities in Lebanon. For young Syrian refugees, trauma even affects their imaginations and creative play. For example, when I was making art with young Syrian refugees in Beirut, one of the boys composed the photo above using cans he sits on while shining shoes. He insisted that only one of his legs should show. It’s no coincidence that in Syria he saw his uncle’s leg shot off in the war — an incident which comes up frequently in conversation and his photographic creations. To me, this image powerfully displays the intersection of his own trauma and his uncle’s injury and disability from the Syrian war…