Reham Abazid spreads the Thursday flyers across the living-room floor—a blanket for the evening meal that will break the fast of Ramadan’s first day. At sunset on May 27, in a tidy three-bedroom apartment in Saint John’s Crescent Valley, Reham and her husband, Mohammad, and their children prepare to eat.
The resettlement experience in Saint John has created a unique pocket of community that locals have begun to refer to as "Syria Town." This shift in the landscape of Crescent Valley reflects the broader story of immigration in Atlantic Canada, where new arrivals are not just finding homes, but actively weaving themselves into the fabric of the neighborhood.