Hard Way Home part 5/6

The collapse of Iraq into sectarian violence after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein drove more than four million Iraqis from their homes. Many of the country's middle class are now refugees in Syria and Jordan. If these engineers, teachers, doctors and shop owners are not helped to survive in exile and eventually return to their homes, Iraq may never recover.

Our film follows three refugee families.

Ahlam was kidnapped in Baghdad and cannot go home. She does whatever she can to help other refugees in Syria but sees an entire future generation at risk.

Fayez has to take his family back to Baghdad because he is bankrupt, but finds a divided city where he cannot work.

Afrah is a Shia married to a Sunni; they cannot live together in Baghdad and have run out of money in Damascus. Their only hope of an income is rent from their flats in Baghdad -- but that means Afrah risking a trip back to confront the militias which confiscated them.

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News & Politics

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• Iraq
• Refugees
• Syria