10.17192/meta.2018.11.7803
Brykalski, Tory
Tory
Brykalski
Rayes, Diana
Diana
Rayes
"It's a power, not a disease": Syrian Youth Respond to Human Devastation Syndrome
Middle East - Topics + Arguments : Vol 11 (2018)
Philipps-Universität Marburg
2018
Syrian children
mental health
Syrian refugees
Lebanon
Human Devastation Syndrome
ethnography
Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies (CNMS)
2018-11-14
2018-11-13
JournalArticle
https://archiv.ub.uni-marburg.de/ep/0003/2018/229/7803
urn:nbn:de:hebis:04-ep0003-2018-229-78033
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2196-629X
application/pdf
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
While it is well acknowledged that the effects of war and exile are devastating for Syrian youth, there has been less focus on how they interpret their experience of war and displacement. Integrating anthropological and global health perspectives, we invite two Syrian youth, Karim and Khadijah, to speak to larger theoretical questions about humanitarianism. We describe the creation of a new diagnostic term, “Human Devastation Syndrome” (HDS) by the Syrian American Medical Society. Used describe the effects of war and displacement on Syrian youth, HDS provides a lens through which Karim and Khadija introduce their own theories of devastation.