VOA常速英语:Salam Neighbor’ Documents Daily Life of Syrian Refugees(翻译)

“District Five is going to be your temporary home”.This was the first time that Chris Temple and his co-producer visited the Middle East.“When we arrived in that camp, we were really nervous until the second we started setting up our tents.All these refugee families started pouring out of their tents next to us” .

Chris Temple told VOA he made this film to dispel this prejudice.“The population that’s bearing the biggest burden and fear around terrorist attacks,you know are refugee populations, are Arab populations and Moslem populations in this region.This isn’t a Muslim versuses Christian attack.Imagine being a family inside of Syria right now.You are stuck between Assad and a group like ISIS”.

So along the neighbor features a number of Syrians, mostly from the Middle Class families, who fled their country.One of them is 11-year-old Rauf, who suffers from PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) from bombings near his house.Despite the Za’atari’s seeming safety, 11 kilometers from the war zone, bombings still rock the camp.

“What did Rauf do wrong?You know he is a young 11-year-old boy among many with this refugee crisis,especially the Syrian refugee crisis, is one with women and children.In 75 percent are women and children of the 4.8 million refugees ”.

Chris Temple hopes his documentary will help open hearts and minds about the millions of Syrian refugees stranded in countries such as Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan and Greece.“I think one of the biggest myths about refugees is that they are assumed to be burdens.You have doctors.You have lawyers.Ghoussoon, one of the people in our film, was a nurse back in Syria.So, they have so much, they can productively contribute to whatever new country they are going to.”

Penelope Poulou, VOA News, Washington.