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Enab Baladi Raqqa – Hussam Al-Omar Eight-year-old Fares collected a set of old-discarded books and notebooks, flipping through them with his small hands while painfully looking at the students returning from the nearby school. In an informal displacement camp on the outskirts of Kasrat village in the southern countryside of Raqqa, Fares lives with his five siblings and parents. None of them have gone to school before. Their parents do not plan to send them to school. Fares has spent six years living on the move, dwelling in different inadequate displacement camps. His family was forced to flee their home in the village of al-Hamra in the eastern Hama countryside, which fell under the Syrian regime forces’ control in 2014. ....