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Supreme Objective by Mushriq Al-Quraishi, Iraq

Author: By Mushriq Al-Quraishi, Iraq
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In the middle of 2006, a civil war began in my hometown in Iraq. I was 18-years-old and in my final year of high school. My family moved to the Kurdistan Region and I was obliged to finish my final exam at my grandfather’s house. It was really hard for me, I witnessed a shooting […]
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The Box By Khaled K, Syria

Author: By Khaled K, Syria
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Five years ago, I was living in a box. Not literally a box, but an extremely small room. When I lived inside this box, I lived like an animal in a cage. My life was controlled by other people. There were eighty people in this small box, all so close together that we were almost one. […]
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Fearing the Next Explosion by Aziza Roshani, Afganistan

Author: By Aziza Roshani, Afganistan
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It was the first week of the month of Ramadan, May 31st 2017, and a regular summer day in Chittagong, Bangladesh, the place where I had come from my home, Afghanistan, to study. At 1:30 pm, I was on my way to my performing arts class. That day, I woke up late and did not […]
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The Uninvited Guest by Hadass Evron, Israel

Author: By Hadass Evron, Israel
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The problem with anxiety attacks is that they’re always coming at a bad time. They don’t ask you if it’s okay when they come, they don’t knock on your door, they just burst in as an uninvited guest that you have to deal with. My body started shaking in the car as I was on […]
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Of Trees and Walls by Ela Lipaz, Israel

Author: By Ela Lipaz, Israel
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I was 26 years old, and I’ve never met the Palestinians who lived only 5 minutes away from my neighbourhood. I stood at this beautiful observation point in Jerusalem and looked upon the Palestinian villages near Bethlehem. My entire life I was living here, but I’ve never visited them. Next to me were standing a […]
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Life is Priceless by A, Gaza, Palestine

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6 AM, on the fifteenth of January, 2009. It was a very cold morning. My family and I woke up to the terrifying noises of the Israeli bulldozers. At first, we were not totally aware of the situation. As far as we knew, the Israeli occupation had left Gaza a long time ago. However, the […]
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How it all happened by Y. Yemen

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On March 21st, a few hundred men who mainly came from the province of Saada in Yemen, and who were surrounding Sana’a, the capital, overran the city and within a few hours controlled every public facility in it. The men were gathering around the city for few weeks before they made their way inside it. […]
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Any port in a storm by Duha, Palestine

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“I never thought I would become an English teacher,” my mother said. This story I am going to tell is my mother’s. I dreamed of being a doctor, I always have. My father told me, “Just pass your Tawjihi exam with a high mark and I will send you to France, to study medicine.” I […]
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Friends forever by Aya, Palestine

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“Friends forever”, that’s what we called each other. We had planned our future since we were in tenth grade, and we planned what we wanted to be in the future. We worked hard on studying for our Al-Tawjeehi exams (the end of high school exams). We used to chat together, sometimes argue and other times […]
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I want you to be a man by M. Gaza, Palestine

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The power was off while the dark sky was moonless, empty, except of some reconnaissance drones that I thought were bright stars in the dawn. Everything was pretty quiet, and everyone from my family inside one room of our small unpainted house was sleeping and snoring on their mattresses without blankets. The atmosphere was really […]
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Truth, Dream or Fiction? by Noa Cohen, Israel

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It was a weekend in 2012, when I came home to spend Shabbat (the Jewish day of rest) with my family in Haifa. At that time I was part of a one year volunteering program in which Israeli-Jews and Israeli-Bedouins worked together in educational frameworks around Be’er Sheva. My Bedouin peer was Dalila (pseudonym) – […]
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Become what you hate by Mohammed AlNaas, Libya

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It was six years ago in Tripoli, when all the hate began to spread in my heart and soul. The Libyan civil war started on February 2011. On  February 25 my fears became bigger, demonstrations spread across the country, the streets were full with people, their shouting was increasing as their numbers were; everything was […]
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