Syria Video Feature: Come to Sweden? Myth and Reality of Life as a Refugee

Outside Turkey and the Middle East, Sweden is one of the two countries which has done the most to take in Syria’s refugees.

So is life a paradise with golden streets and “Euro trees” in Stockholm and Uppsala?

Refugee Mahmoud Bitar uses humor to caution against illusions while pointing out that — in a week filled with stories of mass deaths of refugees in the Mediterranean and in the back of trucks — Sweden offers some hope for the millions who have been displaced in the Syrian conflict.