![]() “The day we were asked to make drawings about the war, I did not feel well,” he later said. At that time, on the tenth anniversary of the beginning of the war in Syria, children were asked to create drawings for a competition organized by the United Nations and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. There, according to people who had daily contact with the family, Jamal began to find his footing: he started school at the KEDU Education Center run by the NGO Arsis, he made friends and regained his self-confidence. Initially, they were housed at the Reception and Identification Center of the island, which today has a capacity to host 816 people. It’s been almost two years since they arrived in Kos in an inflatable boat from Turkey. Jamal was six years old when he left Syria with his mother and two siblings, 14-year-old Hala and 8-year-old Yasif. When they were forced to leave his hometown of Aleppo, he was so young that he doesn’t remember when it happened − “my mom knows when” he says. Jamal is a child who has spent half of the 12 years of his life on the street. Illustré par des dessins d’enfants syriens /aBFfcFwUJg Supplément « Dix ans de guerre en Syrie » dans Le Monde de ce weekend. Nor am I happy that my drawing has traveled to another place, while I’m still in prison.” “And he told them, I don’t want anything from you. And he replied: I’m just drawing what the conditions here are like, and I will continue to draw what I see, that I’m in a prison,” said Hamam Widad, the boy’s mother. When he was asked about his drawing, Jamal said he felt sorrow and anger when he drew a picture of war-torn Syria – and he felt the same way when he was told that his drawing managed to travel to such a faraway place. Following an exhibition of children’s artwork at MuCEM in Marseilles (Museum of Civilizations of Europe and the Mediterranean), the drawing he had created with the help of his friend Ahmad, made the front pages, on March 13, of one of Europe’s most important newspapers, Le Monde.
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