Until he heard honking outside. “I wanted to party with people outside,” he says. Amr fled Syria to the Netherlands when he was 21 and is pursuing a master’s degree in Science and Technology of Nuclear Fusion. When he came outside, Amr was a little afraid to celebrate at first. Many Syrians carried the Syrian flag with three stars, also known as the rebel flag. “The flag used to mean danger. My head still thinks that the flag entails risks. But that is no longer the case, it is a party.”
Happy and tense: Utrecht Syrians about the fall of Assad
