Syrian newcomers express themselves through art
Ousama Alkhatib is a Syrian newcomer who came to Canada looking for a fresh start. He fled Syria near the end of 2013 to Lebanon.
Ousama Alkhatib is a Syrian newcomer who came to Canada looking for a fresh start. He fled Syria near the end of 2013 to Lebanon.
From guests at the Trump International Hotel and Tower in downtown Toronto to employees at the U.S. Consulate a few blocks away, Toronto is paying close attention to the results of the 2016 American presidential election. Our team of reporters is fanned out across the city gathering reaction, while a mobile crew is on an election road trip to New York State to cover the angles as they make their way across the border.
In March of this year, Luz Marina Ortiz revisited perhaps the most traumatic moment of her adult life. Participating in a workshop about human rights, she hung a shirt in an otherwise empty closet and snapped a still photograph.
“It represents the absence of my husband,” she said.