Barriers of Separation
Jordan
Only two years into the war in Syria, over 3,500 journalists had traveled through Camp Za'atari to tell stories of the Syrian people who were forced out of their country to live in exile in Jordan. The stories told were somewhat black and white and largely tragic. In response to the mainstream media reporting of the refugee experience, Felsman Fellow Laura Doggett organized two workshops to give Syrian girls living as refugees in Jordan's camps and urban areas cameras and the chance to tell their own stories.

18-year-old Raghad expresses her desire to reconnect with her father and family in this personal postcard from her new home in Jordan. Raghad is from Dara'a, Syria and now lives as a refugee in Irbid, Jordan. “For me, from inside, I can’t tell people what I feel, so I represented it through these film movements. What's inside of me I couldn’t let it reach out to anyone, so in the hopes of being able to say something, I made this film.”