Category: Regions
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Interview with Asma
Interview with Asma by SN ’21. Asma is a 23 year old studying journalism in Palestine. While originally from Gaza, she currently lives with her entire family in a refugee camp in the West Bank. Asma is extremely passionate about pursuing journalism and media within her career. She studied at the university of Al-Quds Bard…
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Interview with Tasnim
Interview with Tasnim by NA ’21. Tasnim is part of a large family where she is the youngest of her siblings. She is also a graduate from Hebron University where she studied media. Having started the first female theater group in her city, Tasnim has shown how much she cares about acting and spreading important…
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“To Understand the Others:” Interview with K.
Before war broke out in Syria, K was a loving son and brother, a passionate student, and a hard worker. After receiving his degree in English Literature from Damascus University in 2009, K was eventually drafted into the Syrian military and forced to fight in the civil war as a soldier under Assad’s regime. His experience…
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Interview with Saeed
Hannah Godefa, Serene Cheng, Noah White About Saeed Throughout the course of the past semester, our group has has the privilege of conversing with Saeed Alaktaa, a young man from just outside Damascus, Syria. He fled the conflict in Syria during a very comfortable point in his life, where he was embarking in entrepreneurship and…
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Interviews with Ghayath
Sydney Palumbo, Daniela Flamini, Andrea de Francesco Meet Ghayath Over the past three months, Daniela Flamini, Andrea de Francesco, and I have had the unique and incredible opportunity to get to know Ghayath Abd Alaziz, a young man originally from the city of Salamiyah in Syria. As he was serving his country’s compulsory military service, the…
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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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Sanaa Domat
The following is the transcript from two interviews conducted on March 26, 2016 and April 26, 2016 with Sanaa Domat, a Syrian woman originally from Homs. As the unabated Syrian crisis worsened, Sanaa and her family were forced to leave their Syrian home in December 2015. She moved to Montreal, Canada during the wave of…
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Khalid Khalifa
Interview with Khalid Khalifa by Abdul Rahman Latif. This interview has been edited and reorganized for clarity. Khalid Khalifa is Syria’s leading writer whose novels are held in high esteem around the Arab world. Khalifa’s book, “In Praise of Hatred” (Madih al-karahiya), is about how the lives of one family are affected by the battle between…
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Hamid Bejeen
Hamid Bejeen Interview conducted by Thao Nguyen and Zaid Khatib Listen to an excerpt here: In July 2013, Hamid Bejeen became a refugee when he fled his Sudanese homeland to seek asylum in Egypt. Though by 2013 the long-lasting civil war in Sudan had technically ended, his departure is another testament of its ongoing…
