"I have been sleeping here five days a week."Fadi had a bachelor apartment in a basement flat on the east side of Toronto, but had not been sleeping there often when I interviewed him. It was hot and sticky and buggy. There are spiders, not that he is afraid of spiders. Thankfully, he has a sponsorship group, concerned Canadians who brought him her…

After he earned his Master's in Lancaster University in 2009, Amr returned to his native Damascus. There he worked in his field -- Resource & Environmental Management -- leading up to and through the first years of the revolution. He had to leave -- first going to Iraqi Kurdistan, then to Gaziantep, Turkey.In the summer of 2016, he and his talented…