The history of past few decades is marked by extraordinary events that altered the world to a great degree -- beginning with the fall of Berlin Wall in 1989 to the attacks on the Twin Towers in 2001.
While the gap in the fall of Berlin Wall and the destruction of the World Trade Center (interestingly, both events that changed the course of history brought down two architectural structures) was of twelve years, after about fourteen years the world is witnessing a new and unprecedented phenomenon. Thousands of refugees fleeing the Syrian cities in particular and the Middle East and North Africa in general are marching into Europe to seek asylum.
The images of these de-situated groups, often walking literally on the map, as they cross territory after territory, do not seem to belong to the 21st century. They remind one of the pilgrimages and crusades of the medieval period, when hordes of soldiers and believers travelled from one kingdom to the neighbouring one. Only they were travelling in the opposite direction -- from Europe towards the holy lands of Middle East.
