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Salam Neighbor concentrates on five Syrian refugees: Ghoussoon, a nurse who built a home business to provide for her children, Um Ali, a grandmother struggling to overcome personal loss and cultural barriers, Raouf, a street smart 10-year-old boy who hides his trauma behind his smile, Ghassem, a 30-something relief worker who lost everything he built in his life, and Ismail, a 20-something ...
Born into a refugee camp in war-torn Somalia, Ifrah is trafficked to Ireland as a teenager. Recounting her traumatic childhood experiences of female genital mutilation when applying for refugee status, she is re-traumatised and vows to devote her life to the eradication of the practice. Taking her campaign all the way to the President of ...
Born in Monrovia, Liberia, in 1981, Weeks was nine years old when he experienced the First Liberian Civil War at first hand. [1] He and his mother, Estina Ntow, were forced to leave their home and marched with many other displaced Liberians to a refugee camp set up in university buildings.
Yousafzai met several of the girls whose stories are included in We Are Displaced in these refugee camps. [18] Speaking about the book, Yousafzai said that "what tends to get lost in the current refugee crisis is the humanity behind the statistics". [13] [20] She further commented that "people become refugees when they have no other option ...
Their stories are collected and curated by Badr, who attends Wesleyan University and is himself an Iraqi refugee. Visitors experience short audio clips through headphones and can continue reading ...
Muhammad Najem (born 2002) is a Syrian war reporter and activist who has been documenting the Syrian civil war since the age of 15. [1] [2] [3] In December 2017, his home of Ghouta, a suburb of Damascus, was besieged by the Syrian Army, and Najem told his family he wanted to tell their story.
Yusra Mardini (Arabic: يسرى مارديني; born 5 March 1998) is a Syrian former competition swimmer and refugee of the Syrian civil war.She was a member of the Refugee Olympic Athletes Team (ROT) that competed under the Olympic flag at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. [1]
If London Were Syria, titled on YouTube Most Shocking Second a Day Video, [1] [2] [3] is a 93-second charity commercial, created by Don't Panic London for Save The Children UK, marking the third anniversary of the outbreak of the Syrian Civil War. [4]