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SHARE They explored Australia on camel, building mosques, introducing Islam and helping to grow the country’s agricultural industry. Between 1860 and the 1920s, at least 3,000 Muslim and Sikh men from Afghanistan, India, Turkey, Egypt and Iran were recruited to Australia for their skill in driving camels. They used these hardy animals to transport goods, search for new pastoral lands and chart fresh routes across the massive, dry expanse of inland Australia. Collectively, they were known as ...

Abdulghani Alrahmo thought he had a good life in Syria. He spent his days as an electrician, dealing with voltages, chargers and inverters. Alrahmo shared his home in Aleppo, near the Turkish border, with his wife Fatima and six children: Raghad, Rawan, Ahmad, Sami, Ghazal and Osama. "[It] was so easy and nice living with family and friends away from complexities of life," he says. The Syrian war, which started in 2011, upended all of that. "We decided to move to Turkey to save my family and...