{"id":26028,"date":"2015-03-27T11:35:35","date_gmt":"2015-03-27T18:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eltecolote.org\/content\/?p=26028"},"modified":"2015-03-27T11:35:35","modified_gmt":"2015-03-27T18:35:35","slug":"healing-the-syrian-diaspora-through-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eltecolote.org\/content\/en\/healing-the-syrian-diaspora-through-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Healing the Syrian diaspora through art"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_25914\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25914\" style=\"width: 234px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Amos-Gregory_WEB.jpg?quality=89&#038;ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-25914 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Amos-Gregory_WEB.jpg?resize=234%2C250&#038;quality=89&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Amos Gregory_WEB\" width=\"234\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Amos-Gregory_WEB.jpg?resize=234%2C250&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 234w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Amos-Gregory_WEB.jpg?resize=600%2C641&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Amos-Gregory_WEB.jpg?resize=449%2C480&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 449w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Amos-Gregory_WEB.jpg?w=700&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 234px) 100vw, 234px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-25914\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amos Gregory<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In October of 2011, I created the San Francisco Veterans Mural Project (Veterans Alley), which allows U.S. military veterans to paint their own stories on the public walls of an alley in the city&#8217;s Tenderloin District.<\/p>\n<p>The project was created to give voice to the Tenderloin\u2019s veteran population, which has long been oppressed, and suffered due to their veteran status, chronic homelessness and self-medication through drugs and alcohol.<\/p>\n<p>Since its inception, the mural project has created a dialogue between the society-at-large and the formerly voiceless veterans population. This communication, facilitated through art, has raised the awareness and understanding of the effects of trauma and the true reality of war within the community.<\/p>\n<p>During the summer of 2012, myself and several of San Francisco\u2019s homeless youth, who were living with the trauma of street life, painted a mural in Veterans Alley to help raise awareness concerning the plight of the Syrian people and the massacre in Homs, Syria. During this massacre, government forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al Assad killed more than 200 men, women and children.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_26030\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26030\" style=\"width: 522px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Veterans-Column-Syria_01web1.jpg?quality=89&#038;ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-26030 \" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Veterans-Column-Syria_01web1.jpg?resize=522%2C346&#038;quality=89&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Mohammed Mustafa, founder of the Free Syria Agency for Rescue, holds a school child in Antakya, Turkey. Photo Amos Gregory  \" width=\"522\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Veterans-Column-Syria_01web1.jpg?resize=600%2C398&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Veterans-Column-Syria_01web1.jpg?resize=360%2C239&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 360w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Veterans-Column-Syria_01web1.jpg?w=800&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 522px) 100vw, 522px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-26030\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mohammed Mustafa, founder of the Free Syria Agency for Rescue, holds a school child in Antakya, Turkey. Photo Amos Gregory<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This act of showing solidarity with the Syrian people, who are presently suffering through the most devastating war of the 21st century, began a three-year conversation with community members and activists in the United States, Europe and ultimately Syrian refugees living in the Turkish city of Antakya, located 40 kilometers from the Turkish-Syrian border.<\/p>\n<p>Since the beginning of the Syrian Civil War in 2011, more than 4.4 million Syrians have fled the chaos and destruction gripping their country\u2014contributing to the worst refugee crisis since the end of World War II. With more than 1.5 million Syrian refugees within its borders, Turkey is experiencing the creation of new vibrant Syrian communities in neighborhoods like the Fatih District in Istanbul and the low-cost housing areas of Antakya\u2014the ghetto. During the winter of 2014, I was invited by the \u201cnew\u201d Syrian community in Antakya to paint a mural on one of the community\u2019s four schools that educate 2,000 displaced Syrian children ranging in age from 4-17.<\/p>\n<p>With well over 75 percent of Syrian refugees identifying as women and children, there is an overwhelming need to provide quality education to these displaced school-aged children, many of whom are orphaned.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_26031\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26031\" style=\"width: 522px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Veterans-Column-Syria_03web1.jpg?quality=89&#038;ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-26031\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Veterans-Column-Syria_03web1.jpg?resize=522%2C346&#038;quality=89&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Syrian children sitting at their school desks in Antakya, Turkey. Photo Amos Gregory  \" width=\"522\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Veterans-Column-Syria_03web1.jpg?resize=600%2C398&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Veterans-Column-Syria_03web1.jpg?resize=360%2C239&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 360w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Veterans-Column-Syria_03web1.jpg?w=800&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 522px) 100vw, 522px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-26031\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Syrian children sitting at their school desks in Antakya, Turkey. Photo Amos Gregory<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Turkish educational system, which is considered very modern, does not have a formalized program for teaching a bi-lingual curriculum in both Turkish and Arabic (which most Syrians speak). With no formalized educational system or proper immigration documentation to enroll in Turkish-speaking schools, most Syrians living outside of United Nations refugee camps are left with few options.<\/p>\n<p>In the city of Antakya, a Syrian community is solving this problem by simply creating their own educational system. Men and women, who before the war were educators, architects, engineers, religious leaders and activists, make up the backbone of a community-based effort to educate their own children in Turkey. I lived within this community during my time spent in Antakya, and I was afforded the unique opportunity to hear these stories of anguish, trauma and harm that the Syrian people have suffered at the hands of their own government and foreign fighters who have claimed the lives of over 220,000 Syrians since the war started.<\/p>\n<p>As I began my journey, I knew that I was bringing with me a wealth of experience in helping heal trauma, for I myself am a U.S. military veteran who creates art with fellow veterans, but this would be the first time to actually work so closely with civilian populations who face the realities of war from an entirely, almost innocent, perspective.<\/p>\n<p>I am also a resident of San Francisco\u2019s Mission District, which is a neighborhood filled with many immigrants who came to the United States as war refugees from countries such as El Salvador, Chile, Nicaragua and Liberia. These neighbors have been so kind to share their stories with me and inspire me to travel and bear witness to the human triumph over the tragedy\u00a0 of a diaspora caused by war.<\/p>\n<p><em>Part 2 of \u201cHealing through Art: The Syrian Diaspora,\u201d will share the stories of these community members who are being forced to deal with aftermath of the Syrian civil war. To read part 2, please read the next issue of El Tecolote, which publishes on April 9.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Amos Gregory is a U.S military veteran, visual artist and activist.<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_26029\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26029\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Veterans-Column-Syria_02web1.jpg?quality=89&#038;ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-26029 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Veterans-Column-Syria_02web1.jpg?resize=800%2C462&#038;quality=89&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"A mural painted for Syria by Amos Gregory and homeless youth in Veterans Alley in San Francisco\u2019s Tenderloin District. Photo Dina Boyer\" width=\"800\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Veterans-Column-Syria_02web1.jpg?w=800&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Veterans-Column-Syria_02web1.jpg?resize=600%2C347&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Veterans-Column-Syria_02web1.jpg?resize=360%2C208&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-26029\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A mural painted for Syria by Amos Gregory and homeless youth in Veterans Alley in San Francisco\u2019s Tenderloin District. 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