The New Yorker featured an article about Syrian disbursement across the Middle east and Europe. The project tracks several Syrians, including a poet and a photographer as they set up life in new lands.
Last year, as I began to map where Syrian artists had gone, a sculptor friend of mine who is based in Berlin insisted that I speak to Khaled Barakeh, who was engaged in a similar but much more ambitious project of his own: the Syria Cultural Index, “an alternative map connecting the Syrian artistic community around the globe and showcasing their work to the world.” A global Yellow Pages that any curator or film director can use to find and hire Syrian talent, the index also connects artists to one another.