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| EPISODE 4

A lost life

In Al-Hol camp, boundaries are not only made of fences, but also of permits, violence, refusals and silences.Then, at the turn of a tent, a familiar dialect is heard, and everything unfolds. Between fear and excitement, negotiations with the administration, and children’s voices trying to tell the story of a brutal world.
25 February 2026
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Created by
Malika Cécile Louati
Editorial support and sound design
Oussema Gaidi
Illustrations and digital art
Hathemi Smedhi

In this episode, we travel to Al-Hol camp to meet a psychology professor working with children, followed by the camp director, in order to understand the supervision mechanisms and the functioning of this very particular camp. The search for Tunisian women proves long and uncertain due to the restrictions imposed. An unexpected encounter then opens the way to further exchanges, revealing fragmented stories and trajectories marked by waiting and uncertainty.

The journalist obtains permission to use a UNICEF office to speak with the children. The presence of the women alters the course of the meeting. The intervention of the administration leaves the women’s stories suspended, giving way to the voices of the youngest. They reveal a fractured memory, a life cut off from the world. The episode thus explores broken lives, between conditions of access to speech in a highly controlled space and the necessity to bear witness.

The Women of Daech: Tunisian women in Syrian camps

In northern Syria, far from the battlefield yet deeply marked by war, women and children live in camps where the past lingers and the future remains uncertain.

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