{"id":33560,"date":"2017-05-26T11:33:32","date_gmt":"2017-05-26T15:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=33560"},"modified":"2017-05-26T11:37:29","modified_gmt":"2017-05-26T15:37:29","slug":"recent-cjp-grad-produces-documentary-humanizing-syrian-refugees-returns-campus-teaching-fellow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2017\/recent-cjp-grad-produces-documentary-humanizing-syrian-refugees-returns-campus-teaching-fellow\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent CJP grad produces documentary humanizing Syrian refugees, returns to campus as teaching fellow"},"content":{"rendered":"

By the time Myriam Aziz arrived from Lebanon to start her master\u2019s degree at Eastern Mennonite University\u2019s Center for Justice and Peacebuilding<\/a> (CJP) in the fall of 2015, the U.S. presidential primary season was already underway. The resettlement of Syrian refugees had become one of its many political footballs, and Aziz was dismayed to hear some Republican candidates say that they wanted to make the vetting process even more rigorous and restrictive.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had experienced firsthand who these refugees are and the journeys they had been on,\u201d says Aziz, who spent the two years prior to coming to CJP working with Syrian refugees in Lebanon\u2019s Beqaa Valley, as a registration assistant and a senior resettlement assistant with the UN’s refugee agency, UNHCR. \u201cI was very familiar with the process.\u201d<\/p>\n