Category: Iraq
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Interview with T
Interview by Thuy-vi Nguyen, Trinity ’20 and Mary Helen Wood, Trinity ’21. We had the opportunity to talk with T over the course of two Skype interviews. Originally from Iraq, T, her mother, brother, and sister have since fled to Turkey. T earned a degree in translation from the College of Art at the University…
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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…
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Laith Jajo
Under the 1951 Convention Related to the Status of Refugees, a refugee is defined as, “A person who, owing to well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion , is outside the country of his nationality and is unable or, owing to such…
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Uprooted
“My name is Sufyan. I was born and raised in Baghdad. I am a refugee from Iraq.” “I used to work in the US Army, starting May 2003, right after the start of the war. Since my job was working with American forces, some people in my village and in my society knew that I’m working with…
