The goal was to create awarness for the victims of the Syrian war, and highlight that the exodus of Syrian refugees accelerated dramatically in 2013. The number of Syrians forced to seek shelter abroad since the civil war that began in March 2011 passed the 2 million.
"A closer look to The Syrian Refugees" is part of the interactives produced for gulfnews.com, the on-line edition of Gulf News, a daily English language newspaper published from Dubai.
gulfnews.com was reported by Forbes in 2010 to be the number one among the English-language online newspapers in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region and in the UAE.
In the effort to reach a broader audience for this project, it was produced in its entirety on HTML5, JavaScript and CSS3. Making this cultural series accessible almost on any browser or device without the use of plug-ins.
