Title: Syrian Art in a Suitcase

Content: <div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/3006/4b66d524-b7c7-427f-89e5-c51a5ad20ced_hq.wav' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='Syrian Art in a Suitcase' data-article-id='3550'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='9500'>Syrian-born artist Mohamed Hafez creates little worlds inside of suitcases.</span> <span data-start-time='9500' data-end-time='17167'>One of his art works looks like a building that was blown open by a bomb.</span> <span data-start-time='17167' data-end-time='26917'>It has small pieces of clothing among the destruction to represent the people who once lived there.</span> <span data-start-time='26917' data-end-time='36313'>"I think the human eye is fascinated by the detail of destruction," he explains.</span> <span data-start-time='36313' data-end-time='41729'>We are always curious to find out what happened.</span> <span data-start-time='41729' data-end-time='51896'>Hafez's art works show the damage caused by the seven-year civil war in his native Syria.</span> <span data-start-time='51896' data-end-time='67479'>"There's nothing glamorous about destruction," Hafez says, "but I use it as a…way for me to heal and creatively weep over the destruction."</span> <span data-start-time='67479' data-end-time='74229'>Hafez is an architect who designs large, modern buildings.</span> <span data-start-time='74229' data-end-time='81667'>In his art work, however, he makes small versions of buildings, cars and other things.</span> <span data-start-time='81667' data-end-time='93208'>His art show, called "Collateral Damage," is being held at the Fairfield University Museum in Fairfield, Connecticut.</span> <span data-start-time='93208' data-end-time='104167'>It has artwork representing Syria before the war, Syria during the war and the experience of refugees.</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Play' class='play' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Pause' class='pause' style='display:none;'></button><button title='Forward' class='forward' disabled='disabled'></button><button class='finished-reading' style='display:none;'>Done</button></div></div></div><div id='article-media'><div id='media-image'><img src='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/3006/0f716836-1df0-46f0-8281-31764f39ebfe.jpg'/></div></div><div id='question-content' style='display:none;'><div class='vocabulary_question question-container' 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Syrian-born artist Mohamed Hafez creates little worlds inside of suitcases. One of his art works looks like a building that was blown open by a bomb. It has small pieces of clothing among the destruction to represent the people who once lived there. "I think the human eye is fascinated by the detail of destruction," he explains. We are always curious to find out what happened. Hafez's art works show the damage caused by the seven-year civil war in his native Syria. "There's nothing glamorous about destruction," Hafez says, "but I use it as a…way for me to heal and creatively weep over the destruction." Hafez is an architect who designs large, modern buildings. In his art work, however, he makes small versions of buildings, cars and other things. His art show, called "Collateral Damage," is being held at the Fairfield University Museum in Fairfield, Connecticut. It has artwork representing Syria before the war, Syria during the war and the experience of refugees.

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