We Are Displaced

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“A stirring and timely book.” —New York Times Book Review

After her father was murdered, María escaped in the middle of the night with her mother.
Zaynab was out of school for two years as she fled war before landing in America. Her sister, Sabreen, survived a harrowing journey to Italy.
Ajida escaped horrific violence, but then found herself battling the elements to keep her family safe.
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In her powerful new book, Nobel Peace Prize winner and New York Times-bestselling author Malala Yousafzai introduces some of the people behind the statistics and news stories about the millions of people displaced worldwide.
Malala's experiences visiting refugee camps caused her to reconsider her own displacement — first as an Internally Displaced Person when she was a young child in Pakistan, and then as an international activist who could travel anywhere in the world except to the home she loved. In We…

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Lushared an impression3 years ago
👍Worth reading
🔮Hidden Depths
💡Learnt A Lot
💧Soppy
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Luhas quoted3 years ago
So whenever I said, “I’m not going to school today. The kids keep laughing at me; I can’t take it,” she would respond, “This is your life. Not theirs. Ignore them and focus on what you want.”
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Luhas quoted3 years ago
I told her about my life and how I was teaching some of the younger kids in the building to read and write because I wanted them to have hope.
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Luhas quoted3 years ago
I don’t think most people understand the tangle of emotions that comes with leaving behind everything you know. They are not only fleeing violence—which is why so many are forced to leave, and is what’s shown on the news—but they are escaping their countries, their beloved homes. That seems to get lost in the conversation about refugees and internally displaced people. So much focus is on where they are now—not on what they have lost as a result
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