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Refugee stories are often about fear: people fleeing their homes because they fear for their safety. But they can also be stories of joy. One Anchorage woman and her family took a path from war to love, and finally, to Alaska.

As a child in Iran, Parisa Elahian was told by school officials she wasn’t equal with other children. “They called us dirty, so they had to separate us from the other kids, so I was in the corner of the class,” Elahian said.

Syria’s refugees are waiting for a new life. The artists among them are depicting this life in limbo — and their memories of the country they left behind.