Jesselyn Cook https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/contributor/jesselyn-cook/rss en Displacement Fri, 25 Mar 2016 00:00:00 +0000 Jesselyn Cook https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/articles/2016/03/25/stranded-syrians-celebrate-nowruz-in-idomeni https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/articles/2016/03/25/stranded-syrians-celebrate-nowruz-in-idomeni Hundreds of Syrian Kurdish refugees celebrated the holiday of Nowruz, marking the beginning of the Persian New Year, along Greece’s border with Macedonia. They have been stuck in Idomeni along with around 10,000 other migrants after Macedonian authorities sealed the border earlier this month. Civil Society Diplomacy & Foreign Affairs Displacement Fri, 11 Mar 2016 00:00:00 +0000 Jesselyn Cook https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/articles/2016/03/11/the-first-syrian-astronaut-is-now-a-refugee https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/articles/2016/03/11/the-first-syrian-astronaut-is-now-a-refugee Muhammad Faris was the first and only Syrian to be sent into space. Selected as part of a Soviet-led mission in the 1980s, he received a hero’s welcome on his return home. But the national hero now lives as a refugee in Istanbul, forced to flee the violence in Aleppo in the first year of the uprising.