Amal Hanano is an associate editor at Syria Deeply. Yakzan Shishakly is the co-founder of the Maram Foundation and the director of the Olive Tree refugee camp in Atma, Syria. https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/contributor/amal-hanano-and-yakzan-shishakly-the-national/rss en Diplomacy & Foreign Affairs Human Rights Wed, 05 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Amal Hanano and Yakzan Shishakly / The National https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/community/2013/06/05/by-predicting-the-fall-of-syria-the-world-let-it-crumble https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/community/2013/06/05/by-predicting-the-fall-of-syria-the-world-let-it-crumble This post first appeared in The National.A Syrian man from Homs used to run a tiny felafel stand in Reyhanli, Turkey, to support his family. He had fled the violence at home and lived in this Turkish town near the Syrian border.