Commissioned by Guardian UK

For Kronos Quartet and David Coulter

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Sea Prayer: a 360 illustrated film by award-winning novelist Khaled Hosseini Scroll to the right as the story progresses. 360 videos do not currently function in Safari, please use Chrome. Inspired by the story of Alan Kurdi, the three-year-old Syrian refugee who drowned in the Mediterranean Sea, Khaled Hosseini, the novelist and Goodwill Ambassador for UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, has written an exclusive story brought to life in virtual reality. The night before a potentially fatal journey, a father reflects with his son on their life in Syria before the war – and on their unknown future