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The old souls of child refugees

Photographer Muhammed Muheisen focuses his lens on the youngest victims of global conflict

by The Week Staff
March 8, 2017

An Afghan refugee chases bubbles while playing on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan.

Aug. 8, 2014.

Afghan refugee boys, wrapped in blankets, play in a cart on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan.

Nov. 30, 2012.

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Refugee Zahra Mahmoud, 5, from Deir el-Zour, Syria, in an informal settlement near the Syrian border on the outskirts of Mafraq, Jordan.

March 11, 2016

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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.

Feb. 3, 2015.

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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.

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.

Sept. 14, 2015

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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

Jan. 13, 2015.

Afghan refugee Hasanat Mohammed, 5, outside his home in a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan.

Nov. 12, 2013.

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Afghan refugees and Pakistani children sing with their teacher during the morning assembly at their makeshift school on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan.

Oct. 31, 2013.

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An Afghan refugee girl carries laundry on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan.

Feb. 22, 2015

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Syrian refugee Zubaida Faisal, 10, skips rope at an informal settlement near the Syrian border on the outskirts of Mafraq, Jordan.

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.

March 13, 2016

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