By Jane Arraf
The Christian Science Monitor
February 22, 2014

Syrian actor and play director Nawar Boulboul showed up a few weeks ago with a dream of bringing Shakespeare to Zaatari, the biggest Syrian refugee camp – and of saving at least a few of the children being dubbed Syria’s “lost generation.”

Mr. Boulboul, a Homs native who left for France after being blacklisted for participating in protests, has told the more than 75 children in the play that they must attend school to participate.

“We opened the door to the tent and they started to come,” says Boulboul, best known for his roles in the popular Syrian television series Bab al Hara (The Neighborhood’s Gate). “A lot of these kids haven’t gone to school from the beginning of the uprising three years ago until today. How will we deal with them when they go back to Syria if we wait to educate them?”

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