Even in Sleep, Syrian Refugee Children Reveal Trauma of War

The eyes — even when closed — are haunting in these photographs. Young Syrian refugee children are shown sleeping on top of broken-down cardboard boxes on a city street, or in a field wrapped in dirty blankets on the ground. The lucky ones have a bed and a roof over their heads. Those who can't sleep look back with vacant stares, with fear or sadness, or with tears streaming down their cheeks — all expressions of the pain of being a Syrian refugee with no home and an uncertain...

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