Archinect - News 2024-12-22T04:14:09-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/115039931/the-suffocating-life-in-a-syrian-refugee-tent The "suffocating" life in a Syrian refugee tent Nicholas Korody 2014-12-02T15:00:00-05:00 >2014-12-04T21:06:01-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/8a/8a268e056890c534f77ec3651dfb1901?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>In the tents of Syrian refugees, stories abound and tragedies surround them daily... With the passage of time, a tent becomes a home and shelter, their only place in this limited world. When rain exhausts the roof of the tents and wind uproots them, the refugees agonize as much as they did over the destruction of their houses in al-Raqqa or Aleppo. &ldquo;We may have grown accustomed to our tent. Some of us like it, and others still cannot stand it. Do you know how the world can become a tent?&rdquo;</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><head><meta></head></html>