When the boy’s baker father Hafedh finds out about the game, he’s both stern and heartbroken. “We didn’t know the bullets meant - it was fun, running around.
Article contentĪl Rabeeah and his friends are well aware of what’s going on around them - yet still innocent enough to make a game of collecting the most bullet casings. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. One of the book’s great strengths is the on-the-streets feeling in Syria - kids playing soccer one moment, avoiding unknown peril sneaking through familiar alleys to avoid dangerous checkpoints the next. This and other stories of an increasingly disrupted life during the multi-sided Syrian Civil War and subsequent displacement crisis flow through Homes: A Refugee Story, written by Edmonton teacher Winnie Yeung, based on interviews with al Rabeeah and his family - including his five sisters and two brothers.īesides the terrific prose and its more harrowing details, what really makes the 220-page book special is its fully realized portrait of normal, everyday Syria slowly being chipped away at by numerous interests wrestling for power. He eventually buried the anonymous jaw beside a tree. The next issue of Edmonton Journal Headline News will soon be in your inbox. If you don't see it, please check your junk folder.
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. 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. Homes tells of the strange juxtapositions of growing up in a war zone: horrific, unimaginable events punctuated by normalcy – soccer, cousins, video games, friends. 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. They moved to Homs, in Syria – just before the Syrian civil war broke out. In 2010, the al Rabeeah family left their home in Iraq in hope of a safer life.
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