Seven Syrians

SEVEN SYRIANS — War Accounts

Diego Cupolo • Journalism / Current Affairs / Photojournalism / Human Rights

Book Description

War, as reported by the world's headlines, is a story of armies and factions, of territory won and lost. SEVEN SYRIANS tells a different story — the one that conventional coverage leaves out. In the summer of 2013, journalist and photojournalist Diego Cupolo volunteered as a teacher in a school for Syrian refugees on the Turkish–Syrian border. What he found were not statistics but people: a barber, students, a primary school teacher, a math professor, an English teacher — seven individuals whose lives had been shattered by a conflict they did not start and could not control.

Cupolo conducted these interviews between July and August 2013, adapting them into flowing monologues that preserve the cadence and dignity of each voice. Every account is accompanied by Cupolo's own full-color portraits of the storytellers and photographs of their environments in the Turkish border town of Reyhanli — images that refuse the aesthetics of disaster in favour of something more radical: ordinary human presence.

SEVEN SYRIANS starkly contrasts with traditional \"spreadsheet journalism\" by presenting the brutality and alienation of war through personal stories of survival, hiding, migration, and the deep longing for a normal life and a return home. Two dollars from each purchase were designated to A HEART FOR SYRIA, providing humanitarian aid to displaced Syrians. This is not a book about geopolitics — it is a book about neighbours, families, and the extraordinary circumstances that ordinary people are forced to endure.

Pull Quotes

\"A stark contrast to spreadsheet journalism

these are the human stories missing from the war coverage.\" — Editorial Assessment

Author Bio

DIEGO CUPOLO is a photojournalist and writer whose work focuses on humanitarian crises, displacement, and the human dimensions of conflict. His reporting and photography have taken him across the Middle East, where he has documented the stories of those caught in the crossfire of history. SEVEN SYRIANS is his first book with 8th House Publishing.

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