Author: Georgie Nink
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Uncertainty: The Most Certain Thing Now
Medford, MA – April 2020 At the end of 2019 I moved back to the US after living in Jordan for four years (and after I quit my job working in Zaatari Camp). I moved in with my sister and other housemates in Medford, MA. About two months later, the pandemic upended everything, and Raja…
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The Day Rafat Left for Canada
Or: My Crash Course in Having a Poker Face Zaatari Camp and Amman, Jordan – 2018 Rafat and I are sitting on the bench outside the kitchen trailer. It’s sunny and warm – April. Zaatari is just a massive trailer city on an otherwise empty stretch of desert flat land, so the afternoon sun always…
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Coming Alive Again
Kitesurfing and healing at Nauset Beach I was hungover, so I wasn’t even sure that I wanted to go to the beach. When Zoe suggested staying home and watching a movie, I was almost convinced. In the end we drove to Nauset beach – my sister Emily, our friends Zoe, Sophie and Sarah, and I.…
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The Refugee, the Arrest & the Carrot Seed
Amman and Zaatari Camp – June 2018 CONTENT WARNING: domestic violence Monday. When I arrived to Zaatari on Monday morning, some of the refugee staff at our youth center told me Hashem* had beaten his wife so badly that she’d called the police who’d detained him in the nearby Mafraq prison for one night. Given…
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How I Ended Up So Far From Home (Part 2)
Working in Zaatari Camp for Syrian Refugees in Jordan This is Part 2 of my Far From Home series. Read Part 1 here. There was the look of it: an ugly desert plain with tin trailers crowded on top of each other, clotheslines strung up between them, and people walking heads bowed along the dusty…
Curious Georgie 
–مرحبا سلام Thank you so much, what a lovely comment to receive! I think you’re right; we can’t always be…