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Asharq Al-Awsat
Asharq Al-Awsat
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Asharq Al-Awsat

Iraqis in Asylum Limbo in Jordan Fashion Their Future

Cornioli hopes the Rafedin label, meaning 'two rivers', will become widely known © Khalil MAZRAAWI / AFP

In a Jordanian church, Sarah Nael sews a shirt for a project that has provided scores of women who fled violence in neighbouring Iraq with skills to earn a living.

Many of the women escaped the extreme violence carried out by the ISIS's self-declared "caliphate" that cut across swathes of Iraq and Syria, before they eventually ended up in Jordan -- where they found themselves without work.

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