Iraq's newest city: A Syrian refugee camp

Darashakran camp, north­east of Erbil, the capital of Iraq's Kurdish region, is home to about 11,000 Syrian refugees (MEE/Sebastian Castelier)

A man adds an extension in front of his house (MEE/Sebastian Castelier)

Cars parked in front of houses at the Darashakran camp for Syrian refugees (MEE/Sebastian Castelier)

A woman stands in front of her shop, with the KRG flag over the door (MEE/Sebastian Castelier)

A hairdresser serves a client in one of Darashakran's many thriving businesses (MEE/Sebastian Castelier)

Two Syrian men play pool while others smoke shisha pipes (MEE/Sebastian Castelier)

Under the flags of the KRG and the Kurdistan Democratic Party (PDK), two Syrian boys play war video games (MEE/Sebastian Castelier)

Rahman Ahmed Brahim, aged 14, smokes a shisha in the shop run by his family (MEE/Sebastian Castelier)

Syrian refugee Massoud Mohammed Youssef, 41, originally from Armelan, is one of 13 members of the refugee’s council (MEE/Sebastian Castelier)

Syrian refugees Shanan Ali al-Qalaf, his wife Aziza Mohammed and their three children seat on the sofa in thei home in the Darashakran camp (MEE/Sebastian Castelier)

The green countryside around the Darashakran camp (MEE/Sebastian Castelier)

Children play “peshmergas against Daesh [IS]” (MEE/Sebastian Castelier)

A young girl wears a wedding dress to attend a wedding in the Darashakran camp (MEE/Sebastian Castelier)

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