Life in a Syrian refugee camp

Shehada Nabelsi, 45, a Syrian refugee, who is the Oud instrument player for the Zaatari Syrian refugee camp's first musical band, poses for a portrait in Mafraq, Jordan, Aug. 28, 2013.

More than 2 million Syrians have fled the country's two-and-a-half year conflict. Jordan hosts more than 554,000 refugees.

Syrian refugee Mohammed Abdullah, 75, poses with his grandson, Rashed, 7, at the Zaatari Syrian refugee camp in Mafraq, Jordan, Aug. 28, 2013.

Mohammed Abdullah was asked by his son, Ahmed Abdullah, on the occasion of the anniversary of the famous Martin Luther King speech "I Have a Dream," to share his dreams; his father replied that his dream is to have a country of our own, a safe country, without humiliation, a country we always wanted and a country our people have paid for in a lot of blood.

Hasan Amari, 32, the singer of the Zaatari Syrian refugee camp's first musical band speaks to Oud player, Shehada Nabelsi, not pictured, as the girls' chorus is seen in the background, rehearse their first song at the camp in Mafraq, Aug. 28, 2013.

Syrian refugee Omm Mohammed, 33, right, and her daughter, stand in front of their family tent at the Zaatari Syrian refugee camp in Mafraq, Aug. 28, 2013.

Omm Mohammed says that she has a dream to return to Syria very soon, and to see her house and her family who she left behind in Daraa.

Her daughter, who declined to use her name, says that she has a dream to see her house and her friends again.

Syrian refugee Afrah Abdullah, 11, poses for a portrait at the Zaatari Syrian refugee camp in Mafraq, Aug. 28, 2013.

Afrah says that her dream is to go back to her house with her family and to find her toys that she left behind when she fled to Jordan.

The founding members of the Zaatari Syrian refugee camp's first musical group rehearse their first song at the camp, Aug. 28, 2013.

Syrian refugee Mohammed Abdullah, 75, enters the tent that he shares with his extended family, at the Zaatari Syrian refugee camp in Mafraq, Aug. 28, 2013.

Syrian refugee Ahmed Abdullah, 40, right, reads his Quran next to his son, Rashed at the Zaatari Syrian refugee camp in Mafraq, Aug. 28, 2013.

Syrian refugees chant anti-Bashar Assad slogans and demand an international military strike on the Syrian regime at the Zaatari Syrian refugee camp in Mafraq, Aug. 28, 2013.

A young Syrian refugee stands in front of his family's makeshift home at the Zaatari Syrian refugee camp in Mafraq, Aug. 28, 2013.

Young Syrian refugees play soccer at the Zaatari Syrian refugee camp in Mafraq, Aug. 28, 2013.

Music teacher, Omar Nweran, 50, second left, one of the founders of the Zaatari camp's first musical group, gives instructions, to the girls' chorus, during their rehearsal, Aug. 28, 2013.

Syrian refugees play at the Zaatari camp in Mafraq, Aug. 28, 2013.

A Syrian woman carries a bundle of greens at the Zaatari Syrian refugee camp in Mafraq, Aug. 28, 2013.

The children's chorus of the Zaatari Syrian refugee camp rehearses in Mafraq, Jordan, Aug. 28, 2013.

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