The old souls of child refugees
Photographer Muhammed Muheisen focuses his lens on the youngest victims of global conflict
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The Week Staff
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(Image credit: The Associated Press)

An Afghan refugee chases bubbles while playing on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan.
(Image credit: Aug. 8, 2014.)

Afghan refugee boys, wrapped in blankets, play in a cart on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan.
(Image credit: Nov. 30, 2012.)

Refugee Zahra Mahmoud, 5, from Deir el-Zour, Syria, in an informal settlement near the Syrian border on the outskirts of Mafraq, Jordan.
(Image credit: March 11, 2016)

Afghan refugees and internally displaced Pakistani children gather in a mud house to learn how to write the alphabet at a makeshift school in the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan.
(Image credit: Feb. 3, 2015.)

Boys play on an improvised swing in a slum that hosts Afghan refugees and internally displaced Pakistanis from tribal areas on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan.
(Image credit: Jan. 9, 2015.)

A Syrian refugee holds a balloon fashioned from a glove while waiting with her family in a train heading for the Austrian border in Roszke, southern Hungary.
(Image credit: Sept. 14, 2015)

An Afghan refugee girl holds her younger brother while she and other children gather by a vehicle loaded with vegetables on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan
(Image credit: Jan. 13, 2015.)

Afghan refugee Hasanat Mohammed, 5, outside his home in a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan.
(Image credit: Nov. 12, 2013.)

Afghan refugees and Pakistani children sing with their teacher during the morning assembly at their makeshift school on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan.
(Image credit: Oct. 31, 2013.)

An Afghan refugee girl carries laundry on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan.
(Image credit: Feb. 22, 2015)

Syrian refugee Zubaida Faisal, 10, skips rope at an informal settlement near the Syrian border on the outskirts of Mafraq, Jordan.
(Image credit: July 19, 2015)

Syrian refugee Amna Zughayar, 9, from Deir el-Zour, Syria, at an informal settlement near the Syrian border on the outskirts of Mafraq, Jordan.
(Image credit: March 13, 2016)
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