After 14 months of unrest, the UN estimates that more than 10,000 people have been killed in Syria.<br /><br />With so many victims, the scale of the uprising is difficult to grasp.<br /><br />But the death of Bassel Shhadeh, a 28-year-old Syrian filmmaker, in the city of Homs has personalised the conflict for students and staff at Syracuse University in New York.<br /><br />Al Jazeera's Kristen Saloomey reports from New York.
