The children, all refugees and mostly from Syria, filed awkwardly into the unfamiliar school. With its lush grounds and English posters on the walls, it was starkly different from their government-run public school in an outer suburb of Beirut.
In a gym room upstairs, the Syrian children lingered on one side and those from the private school on the other, but not for long. As part of an integration workshop run by the Beirut Art Centre and Seenaryo, an arts and education charity, they were put into pairs – one from each school – and then into groups to come up with a short play. By the end of the workshop, they had visibly relaxed. “I liked meeting new people,” said a boy from the private school. “I’ve never met anyone from Syria before,” said another.
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