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      <image:caption>An exhausted man awaits rescue from a stricken boat off the coast of Libya. ©Ruth Pollard 2015</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A stricken boat carrying hundreds of people fleeing Libya lists in the Mediterranean Sea. © Ruth Pollard 2015</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Crossing the Iraq-Syrian border across the Tigris River. © Ruth Pollard 2015</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A family of Syrian refugees in a makeshift camp north of the Lebanese city of Tripoli © Ruth Pollard 2014</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A tiny Syrian refugee sits in a rundown marketplace near the port of Tripoli in Lebanon. © Ruth Pollard 2014</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Young Iraqi refugees on the outskirts of the city of Kirkuk. © Ruth Pollard 2014</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A young Syrian couple in Izmir, Turkey, waiting to be smuggled across the Aegean Sea to Greece. © Ruth Pollard 2015</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Libyan women celebrate downfall of dictator Muammar Gaddafi. © Ruth Pollard 2011</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A jubilant Libyan rebel marks liberation of Tripoli. © Ruth Pollard 2011</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Revolutionary graffiti in the old city of Tripoli, Libya. © Ruth Pollard 2012</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>YPG fighter Nishtiman Nishtiman in a village in north-eastern Syria. ©Ruth Pollard 2015</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Assyrian Atur Aisak in Tel Tamer, a day after ISIS attacked the Syrian town. ©Ruth Pollard 2015</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Free Syrian Army fighters take a break near Salma, Syria. ©Ruth Pollard 2012</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A woman weeps over her son's body after the Rabaa massacre in Egypt. ©Ruth Pollard 2013</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The devastation of Shuja'iyeh during the 2014 war with Israel. ©Ruth Pollard 2014</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Abandoned Iraqi Army helmets following 2014 ISIS invasion. ©Ruth Pollard 2014</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Rescuers from the Migrant Offshore Aid Station ferry stranded refugees to safety. © Ruth Pollard 2015</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Men from the Kurdish-Syrian village of Kobane escaping an ISIS attack. ©Ruth Pollard 2014</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A mother weeps over the body of her son, killed in the Rabaa massacre in Egypt. ©Ruth Pollard 2013</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Kareema Abel Moneim Sharaqi outside her home in a Cairo cemetery. ©Ruth Pollard 2011</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Bangkok typewriter. ©Ruth Pollard 2014</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>©Fadi Yeni Turk 2014</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Speed Sisters Betty Saadeh, Nour Daoud and Maysoon Jayyusi in Ramallah. ©Ruth Pollard 2012</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A solo worshipper in a Sunni mosque in Baalbek, Lebanon. ©Ruth Pollard 2015</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Young Syrian children in a village recently liberated from ISIS. ©Ruth Pollard 2015</image:caption>
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