The Refugee Camp: Our Desert Home: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Anita Rani, Javid Abdelmoneim and Ben Timberlake immerse themselves in the life of Zaatari, a unique desert city in Jordan. Zaatari is no ordinary city - it is a refugee camp and home to some 80,000 Syrians who have fled the bombs and bullets of Syria's civil war and what was once a temporary camp has now become a city the size of Bath. Originally just a few hundred tents, it now has 24,000 homes with a busy shopping street (known locally as the Champs-Elysees), hospitals and schools, and like every other city on earth, Zaatari has births, deaths, marriages and everything in between.

Series details

• Title: The Refugee Camp: Our Desert Home
• Format: Documentary
• Language: English
• Premiere date: 2016-07-21
• Final broadcast date listed: 2016-07-28
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: BBC Two
• Network country: United Kingdom
• Typical episode runtime: 60 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 19151
• TVDB ID: 314965

Cast and credited roles

• Anita Rani — Anita Rani
• Javid Abdelmoneim — Javid Abdelmoneim
• Ben Timberlake — Ben Timberlake

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2016-07-21; final listed air date 2016-07-28; episode order: 2.

Source and licence

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