Category: Syria
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Interview with Noor
Interview by Brett Hammerman ’25 and Katherine McKenzie ’25. Noor is a 30 year old Arabic teacher from Salamiyah, Syria currently living in Milan, Italy with her husband. Her family is part of the Ismaili sect of Islam and Salamiyah is one of the places where this sect is most concentrated. Noor attended Ittihad Private…
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Interview with Hadiya
Interview by Ryan Selig ’25 and Vidita Shah ’25. Hadiya is a Syrian refugee and a wife and mother of two currently living in a refugee camp in the Netherlands. Hadiya was born and raised in Syria where she grew up in a large and loving Kurdish family. As a child Hadiya always enjoyed school…
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Interview with Mahmoud
Interview by Rafae Alam, Trinity ’19 and Sofia Zymnis, Trinity ’21 Before moving back to his birth country of Syria in his adolescence, Mahmoud had grown up in many countries across Asia and Europe, including Armenia, Turkey, Qatar, Iran, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and France. After finishing high school, he studied nursing while working to create arts…
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Interview with Jan
Interviewers: Ahmed Salat Birik, Trinity ’21 and Natali Rey, Trinity ’18. Jan is a Syrian refugee who currently lives in Greece. He was born and raised in Qamishli, a city in northern Syria, where his father owned an ice cream factory. He then went to university in Aleppo where he was an engineering student, but…
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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…
