Category: Lebanon
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Gueya
Meet Gueya: Gueya currently lives in Jounieh, Lebanon, with her parents. She left Syria in 2013 and moved to Sweden with her family shortly thereafter. She then relocated to Lebanon, where she volunteers teaching English to young children in a nearby refugee camp. While in Syria she attended the University of Damascus, where she received…
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Interview with Carmen
Interviewers: Elizabeth Burnette, Trinity ‘18; Grace Meisel, Trinity ‘19; Leah Rothfeld, Trinity ‘18 Introducing Carmen Carmen is a Palestinian-Syrian refugee and student who now lives in Toronto, Canada. The grandchild of Palestinian refugees to Syria, Carmen grew up in the Yarmouk camp in Damascus and first sought asylum in Lebanon. Her family was later sponsored…
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Ghofran Ahmed
The following is an abridged transcript of interviews conducted October 28, November 3, and November 17, 2015 with Ghofran, a young Iraqi woman originally from Baghdad. As sectarianism and violence during the American occupation worsened, Ghofran was forced to leave her Iraqi home in 2007. She moved in Sahnaya, Syria and later to Beirut, Lebanon…
