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15 Minute Drama: Welcome to Zaatari

Sirine Saba

Paul Chahidi

Raghad Chaar

Amir El-Masry

Souad Faress

Farshid Rokey

Jalleh Alizadeh

Adam El Hagar

Chris Pavlo

Olivia Popica

Susan Jameson

Ewan Bailey

Majd Hijjawi

Wael Qadour

Ahmad Ameen

Liz Rigbey

15 Minute Drama: Welcome to Zaatari: Episode 1

Welcome to Zaatari

Episode 1

BBC Radio 4 - 15 Minute Drama, Welcome to Zaatari, Episode 1

Why would anyone plant a garden in Zaatari Refugee Camp?

Two ambitious young women in Jordan are living very different lives. 

Reem's Syrian family have fled to the sprawling Zaatari Refugee Camp. Jordanian Yara lives in the capital Amman, but is just starting as an aid worker at the camp. 

As Reem's brothers struggle to survive - in the camp itself, working illegally in Amman, under fire in Syria, or en route to Germany - both families' destinies will collide. And both will face impossible choices about their future.

1/5 Why would anyone plant a garden in Zaatari Refugee Camp?

Welcome to Zaatari is adapted by Liz Rigbey from 'We Are All Refugees', an Arabic audio drama about Syrian refugees in Jordan, which was produced by William Stirling, Charlotte Eagar and Georgina Paget for Refuge Drama Productions, in conjunction with Radio SouriaLi and the UNHCR. It was written by Wael Qadour, Majd Hijjawi and Ahmad Ameen, and translated by Wael Qadour and Majd Hijjawi. 

The theme music for Welcome to Zaatari is 'El Mokhtalifeen', the new single from Jordanian group El Morabba3 (elmorabba3.com).

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