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Lebanon, Bekaa Valley. Radwan (Abu Khalil) Bayazid, 35, from a Damascus suburb.
“This babbour (a traditional Syrian stove) has belonged to our family for over 40 years. It was in my father’s house, and when he passed away I inherited it. My father prepared the traditional Syrian tea, coffee and mate with this babbour. To me that represents the family I came from, our life in Syria, how we used to live, who we used to be. Our identity” says Radwan (Abu Khalil) Bayazid, 35, from a Damascus suburb.
Radwan, a former occasional daily labour worker, is the shawish of the refugees settlement close to Zahle (Bekaa Valley) where his family has been living for three years since they were forced to flee Syria. Each Syrian refugee settlement is ruled by a shawish, the person to whom all other families refer. He lives in a tent with his wife Fatma (32) and six children; Khalil (14), Mohamad (13), Ahmad (10), Sahar (9), Hanan (7) and little Mono (2), Amina (16), his eldest daughter, got married two months ago in Lebanon. Mohammed works as butcher in a chicken butcher shop in Zahle.
Alessio Romenzi
“This babbour (a traditional Syrian stove) has belonged to our family for over 40 years. It was in my father’s house, and when he passed away I inherited it. My father prepared the traditional Syrian tea, coffee and mate with this babbour. To me that represents the family I came from, our life in Syria, how we used to live, who we used to be. Our identity” says Radwan (Abu Khalil) Bayazid, 35, from a Damascus suburb.
Radwan, a former occasional daily labour worker, is the shawish of the refugees settlement close to Zahle (Bekaa Valley) where his family has been living for three years since they were forced to flee Syria. Each Syrian refugee settlement is ruled by a shawish, the person to whom all other families refer. He lives in a tent with his wife Fatma (32) and six children; Khalil (14), Mohamad (13), Ahmad (10), Sahar (9), Hanan (7) and little Mono (2), Amina (16), his eldest daughter, got married two months ago in Lebanon. Mohammed works as butcher in a chicken butcher shop in Zahle.
Alessio Romenzi
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- ALESSIO ROMENZI
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- 2015 REMAINS
