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Homes

A Refugee Story

by (author) Abu Bakr al Rabeeah & Winnie Yeung

Publisher
Freehand Books
Initial publish date
Apr 2018
Subjects
General, General
Categories
Author lives in Alberta

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    ISBN
    9781988298290
    Publish Date
    Apr 2018
    List Price
    $10.99

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Description

In 2010, the al Rabeeah family left their home in Iraq in hope of a safer life. They moved to Homs, in Syria – just before the Syrian civil war broke out. Abu Bakr, one of eight children, was ten years old when the violence began on the streets around him: car bombings, attacks on his mosque and school, firebombs late at night. Homes tells of the strange juxtapositions of growing up in a war zone: horrific, unimaginable events punctuated by normalcy – soccer, cousins, video games, friends. Homes is the remarkable true story of how a young boy emerged from a war zone – and found safety in Canada – with a passion for sharing his story and telling the world what is truly happening in Syria. As told to her by Abu Bakr al Rabeeah, writer Winnie Yeung has crafted a heartbreaking, hopeful, and urgently necessary book that provides a window into understanding Syria.

About the authors

Abu Bakr al Rabeeah is a high school student in Edmonton, Canada.

Winnie Yeung is a teacher who lives in Edmonton with her black pug, Zoe. Homes is her first book.

Abu Bakr al Rabeeah's profile page

Winnie Yeung has been an English Language Arts teacher for ten years. Homes is her first book. She lives in Edmonton with her black pug, Zoe.

Winnie Yeung's profile page

Editorial Reviews

“In Yeung’s skilled hands, this memoir comes to life with immediacy, detail, and sensitivity . . . At a time when many refugee children and families are settling in all parts of Canada, Abu Bakr’s story will build empathy and understanding. Homes: A Refugee Story illuminates the efforts of children and families to live normal, peaceful lives in the midst of warfare and terrorism. For non Muslim readers, it depicts a boy and his extended family’s experience and practice of a faith tradition that is poorly understood by many in the western hemisphere and Europe. Highly recommended.”

CM: Canadian Review of Materials

“From a safe distance, the violence of the Syrian civil war is too vast and grotesque to grasp. How does one comprehend the deaths of 500,000 people, after all? Homes grants readers an intimate view of the war through the eyes of a ten-year-old boy as he struggles to play, pray, and survive as his world collapses around him. Homes stands as one of those rare books that manages to find humanity in the inhumane and, in the end, says more about love than war.”

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