we are not numbers

emerging writers from Palestine tell their stories and advocate for their human rights

Tag: Syria

On my 17th birthday, I cannot celebrate. Children (and their parents) are dying in Aleppo (and elsewhere) while the world looks on.
Omran is one of countless children around the world who now know the worst thing humans can witness: war.
These Palestinians fled Syria for safety--to Gaza.
They jumped from the fire to a frying pan, but these Syrians are making a home in Gaza.
I feel a responsibility for these displaced people. After all, Palestinians have been displaced from our own ancestral lands for more than 60 years. Their trauma is our trauma.
The first time I walked into the school of 80+ refugee children, I expected to find them traumatized by their past. They surprised me.
Every photo in the news of a Syrian refugee has a story behind it. Imagine for a minute just one, a little girl named Amina.