“We didn’t know the bullets meant - it was fun, running around. Article contentĪl Rabeeah and his friends are well aware of what’s going on around them - yet still innocent enough to make a game of collecting the most bullet casings. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. One of the book’s great strengths is the on-the-streets feeling in Syria - kids playing soccer one moment, avoiding unknown peril sneaking through familiar alleys to avoid dangerous checkpoints the next. This and other stories of an increasingly disrupted life during the multi-sided Syrian Civil War and subsequent displacement crisis flow through Homes: A Refugee Story, written by Edmonton teacher Winnie Yeung, based on interviews with al Rabeeah and his family - including his five sisters and two brothers.īesides the terrific prose and its more harrowing details, what really makes the 220-page book special is its fully realized portrait of normal, everyday Syria slowly being chipped away at by numerous interests wrestling for power. He eventually buried the anonymous jaw beside a tree. The next issue of Edmonton Journal Headline News will soon be in your inbox. If you don't see it, please check your junk folder. Manage Print Subscription / Tax ReceiptĪ welcome email is on its way.
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