Refugee World – Reading The Pictures

So, what’s new about refugee camps? Well, perhaps it’s notable that they are being built in Las Vegas.

via Reading The Pictures: http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2014/04/refugee-world/

This is an aerial view of the Za’atari refugee camp near the Jordanian city of Mafraq, some five miles from the border with Syria. Last July, it housed 144,000 refugees. In the desert. But for the lack of little things like trees, it could almost be mistaken for the grid plan of Chicago that you see when flying into O’Hare