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.

Muna, a romantic 16-year-old girl whose family fled from Syria to Jordan, tries to reconcile her need to express herself and be a normal teenager within the new confines of her family’s situation. Muna is from Dara'a, Syria and now lives as a refugee in Irbid, Jordan. “Since I started class all I can think of is filming. I started going outside just so I could film. I love to film on the roof. For example, when I am bothered and I want to just breathe, really, I just feel at peace.”