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No Exit: Outside the Camp, Daesh Incidents are on the Rise. Inside, Tempers are Seething.
Susan SchulmanRUSI Journal, 18 December 2019
Iraq, Middle East and North Africa
In June 2019, photojournalist Susan Schulman visited the Hassan Sham camp for displaced people in Kurdistan, Northern Iraq, to talk to the residents and find out more about their lives and expectations for the future.
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