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New Banksy Piece Puts Steve Jobs in a Syrian Refugee Camp

Banksy painted Jobs standing with an original Mac in one hand and a sack over his shoulder.

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Anonymous street artist Banksy is bringing awareness to the Syrian refugee crisis. The British artist spray painted an image of Steve Jobs, the child of a Syrian refugee, on a wall in France’s infamous Calais refugee camp. Banksy painted Jobs standing with an original Mac in one hand and a sack over his shoulder. The caption “the son of a migrant from Syria” accompanies a photograph of the work on Banksy’s website.

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This article originally appeared on Recode.net.

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