I am Nour Adil, I am thirty years old from Iraq. I am an Arabic language teacher and a civil activist in the field of...
In fact, I suffered from two points during my professional, practical and academic life. The first point was within the context of my family and...
My name is Badia Hussain, and I am thirty years old. I have been practicing social work since 2015 in many fields. I started with...
The time when I felt that I was not being myself or needed to change my identity is a personal situation that happened to me...
I am here only to express the issue of Mihrim. In Yemen, women are not allowed to move from one governorate to another without the...
I am Mona al-Hilali from Iraq, southern Iraq, from Dhi Qar Governorate, from a small district called al-Shatrah district, a district distinguished by customs and...
My name is Shaima Bahzad, from Iraq, specifically from Baghdad. I am forty years old. I am an activist and blogger. I have an electronic...
Transcript of the interview (translated from Arabic): I am Imane Er Rami. I am a Moroccan researcher at the academic level holding a PhD at...
Transcript of the interview (translated from Arabic): Most of the time there are many things I can't do. This is because of the fact that...
Transcript of the interview (translated from Arabic): Naturally, women are prevented from many things, especially if they belong to the category of marginalised women. For...
Transcription de l'entretien: Pouvez-vous vous présenter, nom, âge, pays, profession actuelle et date du jour Je m'appelle Amina Amharech, je suis Amazigh, donc militante...
Mahmoud Zidan is a retired engineer from Tartous. The transcript of this interview, and all the interviews within this collection, have not yet been translated...
Madeline Okian, 28, lives in Syria. Here, she talks to us about her sense of identity: I’m from Aleppo, from an Armenian family. I have...
Simav Hassan, 29, is from Syria. Here, she talks to us about her sense of identity: Whenever the subject of identity comes up, I immediately...
Saghatel Bassil is 44 years old and currently lives in Sweden. Here, he talks to us about his sense of identity: My name is Saghatel,...
Ronas Sheikhmous, 31, lives in Germany. Here, he talks to us about his sense of identity: The injustice and oppression practiced against the Kurdish people...
Hozan Ibrahim, 36, lives in Denmark. Here, he explains how he conceives of his identity: I’m a Syrian Kurd. Religious affiliation means nothing to me....
Bashar Azzam is a Syrian living in Suwayda. Here, he talks to us about how he understands his identity as a Syrian: First and foremost,...
Mohamad Çiçek is Syrian and currently lives in Sweden. Here he talks to us about what influences his sense of identity as a Syrian: Very...
Dara Kurdo is Syrian-Kurdish and currently lives in Denmark. Here, he talks to us about his identity and what constitutes it: The elements of my...
The transcript of this interview, and all the interviews within this collection, have not yet been translated to English. Should you have the capacity to...
The transcript of this interview, and all the interviews within this collection, have not yet been translated to English. Should you have the capacity to...
The transcript of this interview, and all the interviews within this collection, have not yet been translated to English. Should you have the capacity to...
The transcript of this interview, and all the interviews within this collection, have not yet been translated to English. Should you have the capacity to...
The transcript of this interview, and all the interviews within this collection, have not yet been translated to English. Should you have the capacity to...
Yassin Joulal, coordinator of the Moroccans of the World Youth Committee, talks to us about the work they undertook: For its part in battling the...
My name is Gona Saed. I’m from Iraqi Kurdistan and I came to the UK twenty-one years ago as a political refugee with my three-year-old...
My name is Amanj Mohammad, from Iraq. I came to Sweden around 19 years ago for political reasons, as a political asylum-seeker. I didn’t have...
Mohamad Noureldin began working at the Military Works branch of the Ministry of Defense in Homs in 1992. His role was assistant to one of...
Ansaf Nasr grew up in a village in as-Suwayda Governorate. She finished elementary school in the village, then stopped going to school because there were...
Although Arda Kashkashian has been living in Lebanon for several years and has received Lebanese citizenship, Aleppo still occupies a special place in her heart,...
Mohamad Sharbaji was born in 1961 in Daraya, a city with a conservative character. Since the 1960s, the majority of its inhabitants had cultivated the...
Ahlam Nazal was born in 1968 in al-Silmiya city in the Hama countryside, where most of the people were poor. “The majority of the population...
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Ibrahim Ezz grew up in a conservative Damascus neighborhood before moving to Masaken Barzeh, a relatively modern precinct populated by a mixture of people who...
Khawla Dunya was born in 1968 in Damascus but moved to the town of Al-Suqaylabiyah in the Hama Governorate. She considers herself lucky to have...
Ihab al-Said was born in 1965 in Qadisiyah village in Al-Haffah region of the Latakia province. Ihab says that Al-Haffah community was composed of three...
Jinan al-’Awwad was born in 1958 in al-Mayadin in Deir ez-Zor, a town on the banks of the Euphrates, about 45 kilometers away from the...
Nada* was born in 1974 to a father from as-Suwayda' province and a mother from Aleppo. Nada grew up in Aleppo, studied there and then...
Bakir Mohammad Ali was born in 1974 to a Turkmen family living in the village of Shamarin in the northern A'zaz countryside near the Turkish...
Ousama* was born in 1967 in the Bab Hud neighborhood of Homs to a middle-income well-known ancient family. Bab Hud is one of the ancient neighborhoods...
Abu Reda al-Maydani grew up in the Damascene district of al-Midan, which extended from Bab Musalla to the end of al-Ashmar Square up to the...
Abdel Razzak El-Laz was born in 1960 in the eastern countryside of Aleppo to an educated and middle-income family. His mother worked as an educator...
Adeeb Alshalaf grew up in the neighborhood of Baba Amr in Homs, a neighborhood of both rural and urban character since it had been part...
Abdul Bary Othman was born in 1962 in the Kurdish village of al-Kouwa in Al-Hasakah governorate, 19 km from Qamishli city. He lived a simple...
Mohamed Berro was arrested in 1980 because of a leaflet he was carrying that goes back to the “Fighting Vanguard” or the military wing of...
Ehsan Hammadeh was raised by a poor family in Aleppo. He went to middle school then enlisted in the army in 1967 so that he...
Dana Yacoub, 34, recalls the gatherings of the Circassian community, held yearly on the seventeenth of April in the two villages of Bariqa and Bi’ir...
Shamweel Warda attended elementary school in the village of Qabar Shamiyah, one of the Assyrian villages located on the banks of the Khabur River in...
Hasna Assaf recalls some of the customs and traditions practiced by the Turkmen in the village of Talf in rural Hama, where there was a...
Yehya Ghiryani grew up in the Qaterji neighborhood in Aleppo, a working-class neighborhood where most of the inhabitants came from rural areas, though there were...
Khalil Ibrahim’s village in rural Aleppo is only about fifteen kilometers away from the Turkish border. It is bound on the north and east by...
“The pharmacist who needs ten years to establish a life for himself in a rural area can achieve the same result in only one or...
Jamila Amin flips through her journal, recalling the beautiful days spent at her grandmother’s house in Syria’s Quneitra Province. “That was the only time where...
George* talks about the relationship he had with his Jewish neighbors while growing up in Aleppo. “I don’t really remember much about the relationship we...
Rima Oshana recalls some of the different social occasions celebrated by the Assyrians in Hassake province in eastern Syria. The Assyrian New Year, for example,...
Abeer Idriss was born to a Sunni father and an Ismaili mother in the town of Masyaf, part of Hama Province in Syria. “Most of...
Hussain Abdel Rahman was only seventeen when he one day met a man who had suffered from a psychological disorder since the age of seven....
Sami Abu Halkha fell in love with music as soon as he opened his eyes to the world. By the age of fifteen, he already...
Nour Shamaa grew up in a conservative, working-class neighborhood in Aleppo. He began attending classes on Islamic Sharia law at one of the local mosques...
Aebesh Khalil was born in 1962 in Afrin, in rural Aleppo. He was brought up in the general atmosphere of coexistence and tolerance that prevailed...
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