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| EPISODE 2

They were children, and suddenly..

Entering a youth rehabilitation center is not merely stepping into an institution. It is crossing into a suspended space, where childhood has been interrupted by war, ideology, and exile — and where the future remains uncertain.
15 February 2026
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في اليوم الثاني من وجودنا في الميدان، جاء الإذن في اللحظات الأخيرة تقريبا: سمح لنا بزيارة مركز إعادة تأهيل الأطفال. قرار متأخر يعكس الحساسية القصوى لهذه الأماكن، حيث تتقاطع الاعتبارات الأمنية والنفسية والسياسية.

Entering a youth rehabilitation center is not merely stepping into an institution. It is crossing into a suspended space, where childhood has been interrupted by war, ideology, and exile — and where the future remains uncertain.

Entrer dans un centre de réhabilitation pour mineurs, ce n’est pas seulement franchir une porte administrative. C’est pénétrer dans un espace suspendu, où l’enfance a été interrompue par la guerre, l’idéologie et l’exil, et où l’avenir reste une question ouverte.

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Created by
Malika Cécile Louati
Editorial support and sound design
Oussema Gaidi
Illustrations and digital art
Hathemi Smedhi

On the second day of our presence in the field, the authorization came almost at the last minute: we were allowed to visit the youth rehabilitation center. A late decision that reveals the extreme sensitivity of these places, where security, psychological, and political concerns intersect.

Behind the technical terminology, a more fragile reality emerges: how can childhoods shaped by violence be repaired without erasing what they have lived through?

One by one, doors opened onto children’s stories — their fragmented memories of Tunisia, followed by their arrival in areas controlled by the Islamic State, where war became normalized and fear turned into routine. The brutal separation from their families, forced displacement, the camps, before finally ending up here, in a center meant to prepare them for a possible return to society.

One question lingers beneath every testimony: how does a society welcome children marked by a war they did not choose?

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