The mountainous town of Bsharre, in northern Lebanon, 02/08/2020 (Silvia Mazzocchin)
BEDAWWI In a decade of war in Syria, Nora was displaced ten times. The 42-year-old woman dodged death as bombs fell within earshot multiple times, fleeing between Idlib, where she lived with her husband – now disappeared – and Damascus, her city of origin. “In Idlib, we stayed three years under the bombs; we slept under olive trees, without knowing what would happen to us,” she said.
A year and a half ago, Nora fled to Lebanon to join her two adult children in Bsharre, an idyllic mountainous town in northern Lebanon. “I was able to sleep and rest psychologically. In Syria, we were always afraid that if we go to sleep, we will not wake up,” she said. Nora worked as a babysitter for the neighbors and described the village’s atmosphere as “nice.”
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