Young Syrians Take Their Chances in Sudan

By Rasha Faek and Tarek Abd El-Galil. It was not possible for Samer, a 28 year old Syrian from the city of Hama, to get a scholarship to any Jordanian university, because he did not have his original high school diploma. Nor could he get legal residency there, despite having lived for more than two years in Irbid, a city in the north of Jordan. So he started thinking of going to Sudan, the one Arab country that still accepts Syrians without visas or other restrictions. More...