Syrian refugee actors perform as part of The Caravan, a street performance project touring Lebanon. Credit: Press Association/Hussein Malla.
It was late in August 2012 when I fled my country for the first time. I was reporting on the increasingly violent uprising in my hometown of Damascus when I was called up for military service, forcing me to leave.
I became a refugee within a day. Almost four years on, it remains unlikely that I will be able to return to Syria in the near future.
