Tag: Zaatari
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The Day Rafat Left for Canada
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 beats down and makes (more…)
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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 (more…)
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How I Ended Up So Far From Home (Part 2)
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 paths which count as (more…)
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How I Ended Up So Far From Home (Part 1)
Freezing cold: winter in the desert camp. I am standing in a tin trailer in the drafty wet drippings of winter. Rain slides down off the edges of the roof. The staff meeting is about to begin and people are milling about, coming in and out of the trailer that (more…)
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