Hear Me
It will take Rania many years to come to terms with the things she has seen, but she wants you to listen to her story. How does it feel to live with the daily threat of bombing and gunfights outside your home, and to watch that home be ransacked by terrorists? To have a gun held to your head, or to make the unbearable decision to leave your family behind in search of a safer, better life? And to look death and terror in the face, and survive?
Rania Ali
Syrian Kurd, aged 23. Aspiring journalist, documenting the odyssey of Syrian refugees. Game of Thrones fan.
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We Could Hear the Warplanes Overhead
I was studying for my high school exams when the trouble started
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ISIS Held a Gun to My Head
Islamic State soldiers take over our city, and we learn to live with terror
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The Boat Is Sinking and We Are Going to Drown
I felt like a victim of the world, somebody that no one cared about
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There Were 12,000 of Us Camping on That Border in Rain, Mud, and Despair
But at night, I could hear the woman next to me singing her girls to sleep
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I Escaped to Austria, and Now I Live Alone
Surviving the war used to take up my whole life. Now I can start to live again.
