"We secretly hope that she finds the strength to invent another life for herself. With her young nineteen-year-old heart"

Laurent Gaudé enjoys experimenting with new forms of writing, which is how he brought back his experience at the Kawergosk camp—a journal, but also some poems. Let's listen to them.

In our “Word for Word” program, the writer Laurent Gaudé recalls the days he spent with the refugees in the Kawergosk refugee camp.

Reza, special correspondent for ARTE Reportage at the Kawergosk camp, brought books and about fifteen cameras to introduce photography to a group of young refugees. Here is their work.

Reinhard Kleist organised a drawing workshop for the refugee children at the Kawergosk camp. Here is their work.

The film director Pierre Schoeller, noted for his film "The Minister", has chosen to show the raw truth: by entrusting his cameras to a few refugees who filmed their daily, private lives, he delivers a strong and raw film for ARTE reportage about the Kawergosk refugee camp in Iraqi Kurdistan.

Discover Reza’s photographs. Recognized the world over for his photos and his humanitarian commitment, he has travelled all over the Kawergosk refugee camp for us.

Reinhard Kleist, a cartoonist from Berlin, tells of his immersion in the Kawergosk Syrian refugee camp with his pencil and with his words. 

"A sort of half basin of land, a sea of white tents, as far as the eye can see, laid out in a simple, perfectly aligned grid."