My father was a tailor, he made clothes for children and men and women. He had a shop next to the house, like this place we are sitting in now, when I was five years old. This was in a village. The family was not big then but as we grew we had to move to…

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I am from Syria, my father owned a factory but during the war he shut it. There is him, my mother and two brothers in my family, I am the oldest. I remember a little from before the war: the first time I went to school I cried a lot, I didn’t like going at the…

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My city had both Arabs and Kurds. I was five when the war began and until now we have war. When I was seven I went to school, we lived in an apartment. When the bomb came it damaged it, I don’t know when, but we went to another place, and as we went I saw…

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We lived in a small village. My father ran a factory, my mother was a housewife. I have three brothers and three sisters, I am the third eldest. I cannot remember any happy time before the war. All I can recall is when I was were eight or nine the whole family went on a journey…

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Life at home was amazing. I went to kindergarden, it was nice. All the children played. My mum was always very good with us, no matter what I asked my parents would be there for me and I for them. I dreamt of registering in school, and studying and I wanted to grow up in Syria.

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I cannot remember anything from before the war. My first memory is bombing and being scattered around. War came suddenly. We started hearing boom, boom, boom, boom and we ran away immediately, we jumped into our basement. There were snipers shooting into houses and we had to hide.

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