This Tuesday, August 19, 2008, PBS will air an all new program at 9pm, entitled Iraqi Refugees, where, WIDE ANGLE "reports from the frontlines of the staggering refugee crisis that is unfolding in the Middle East as Iraqis flee their war-torn country at the rate of up to 50,000 people per month.

WIDE ANGLE goes to the heart of the crisis- to Syria and Jordan, which harbor the vast majority of uprooted Iraqis- and explores the displaced Iraqi community in Syria, from the middle class suburbs where Iraqis have sent housing prices soaring to the cramped Damascus slums where one out of three residents is Iraqi-born."

[Image Credit: Iraqi Exodus - Production Diary III: A Family Still Torn Apart by War - Tania Rahkmanova]